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Andreia Fouto
423 PointsPlacehold
<header> <img src="http://placeimg.com/400/400/people" alt="Drawing of Jane Smith" class="profile-image"> <h1 class="tag name">Hello, Iām Andreia.</h1> <p class="tag location">My home is wigan,England.</p> </header> This doesn't make the image change every time I refresh the browser.
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Steven Parker
229,732 PointsYour browser is most likely displaying a cached image instead of fetching a new one. Depending on the browser, there may be a special way to refresh without cache or you may be able to perform a separate funciton to delete cached images and pages.
You can also add a fake query string to your image URL to prevent the browser from using the cached version with a line of JavaScript like this:
document.querySelector("img").src += "?nocache=" + Math.random();
Note that this particular version only affects the first image on the page.