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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) HTML: The Structural Foundation of Web Pages and Applications Image Tags

Andrew Harrison
Andrew Harrison
703 Points
Posted by Andrew Harrison
Andrew Harrison
703 Points

Image Placeholder

So I inserted the placeholder image URL, saved and it changed the image. However whenever I refresh it just maintains the same image and I have to add/remove s from http to get it to generate a new image????

Thoughts?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points

Your browser is probably caching the image. Depending on the browser, you may have an optional way to refresh that discards the cache, or you may have a "clear cached images" function.

You could also add a small JavaScript component to add a random query string to the URL to prevent caching. I provided some sample code for this in a previous similar question.