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Img src Not Working That means, when a web page loads, the browser has to retrieve the image from a web server and display it on the page. The broken link icon means that the browser could not find the image. If you've just added the image, then check that you included the correct image URL in the source attribute.
Why Is My Image Not Showing up in HTML? One of the reasons why your HTML image not showing in browser is that its file is not located in the same folder that is indicated within your tag. Also, the image may not load because the file name specified in the <img> tag does not match that of your image file.
To use an image on a webpage, use the <img> tag. The tag allows you to add image source, alt, width, height, etc. The src is to add the image URL. The alt is the alternate text attribute, which is text that is visible when the image fails to load.
You asked for an HTML only solution...
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Object Test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<p>
<object data="http://stackoverflow.com/does-not-exist.png" type="image/png">
<img src="https://cdn.sstatic.net/Img/unified/sprites.svg?v=e5e58ae7df45" alt="Stack Overflow logo and icons and such">
</object>
</p>
</body>
</html>Since the first image doesn't exist, the fallback (the sprites used on this web site*) will display. And if you're using a really old browser that doesn't support object, it will ignore that tag and use the img tag. See caniuse website for compatibility. This element is widely supported by all browsers from IE6+.
* Unless the URL for the image changed (again), in which case you'll probably see the alt text.
This works well for me. Maybe you wanna use JQuery to hook the event.
<img src="foo.jpg" onerror="if (this.src != 'error.jpg') this.src = 'error.jpg';">
Updated with jacquargs error guard
Updated: CSS only solution
I recently saw Vitaly Friedman demo a great CSS solution I wasn't aware of. The idea is to apply the content property to the broken image. Normally :after or :before do not apply to images, but when they're broken, they're applied.
<img src="nothere.jpg">
<style>
img:before {
content: ' ';
display: block;
position: absolute;
height: 50px;
width: 50px;
background-image: url(ishere.jpg);
}
</style>
Demo: https://jsfiddle.net/uz2gmh2k/2/
As the fiddle shows, the broken image itself is not removed, but this will probably solve the problem for most cases without any JS nor gobs of CSS. If you need to apply different images in different locations, simply differentiate with a class: .my-special-case img:before { ...
Found this solution in Spring in Action 3rd Ed.
<img src="../resources/images/Image1.jpg" onerror="this.src='../resources/images/none.jpg'" />
Update:
This is not an HTML only solution... onerror is javascript
a simple img-element is not very flexible so i combined it with a picture-element. this way no CSS is needed. when an error occurs, all srcset's are set to the fallback version. a broken link image is not showing up. it does not load unneeded image versions. the picture-element supports responsive design and multiple fallbacks for types that are not supported by the browser.
<picture>
<source id="s1" srcset="image1_not_supported_by_browser.webp" type="image/webp">
<source id="s2" srcset="image2_broken_link.png" type="image/png">
<img src="image3_fallback.jpg" alt="" onerror="this.onerror=null;document.getElementById('s1').srcset=document.getElementById('s2').srcset=this.src;">
</picture>
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