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Kabue Charles
Kabue Charles

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HTML ~ Hide broken images, or replace then gracefully

onerror="this.src='fallback-img.jpg'"
onerror="this.src='fallback-img.jpg'"
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Jip⚡️

Wow, I had no idea img tags had an onerror attribute! Thanks!

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Devin Handspiker-Wade

Most JS events can be used as attributes. Usually not recommended; even in this case depending on the scale it may be better/cleaner to have a error handler listening for any image error.

If you're interested is event attributes, Mozilla has some nice documentation on it: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

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Mattia Astorino • Edited

Ther is an error in the inlined code.

onerror="this.src='this.src='fallback-img.jpg'"

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Kabue Charles

seen it... thanks...