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

Sufiyaan Haroon
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Sufiyaan Haroon
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 9,558 Points
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Sufiyaan Haroon
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 9,558 Points

When I refresh I don't get a new picture!?!

I don't get a random new pic in the portfolio.

Henrik Christensen
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Henrik Christensen
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 38,322 Points
Henrik Christensen
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Henrik Christensen
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 38,322 Points

My best guess is that you might forgot to save the file?

Try paste your code in here, that way it's possible to see what might be causing this problem.

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

Two things, fist, if you are having issues you need to post the code that you are having difficulty with along with your question, if not no one knows what's going on. Second Did you refresh your browser cache? If using chrome, go to the settings and click more tools then clear browser data, this might help.

Randy Eichelberger
Randy Eichelberger
1,491 Points

You definitely don't need code to understand that this is a browser caching issue. Yes in the future most questions will require code to be posted, but for something like this you absolutely don't.

2 Answers

gusf
gusf
11,070 Points

Hold down Shift and click on refresh button. The browser wont load from cache this way and you will have a new image.

Tati Gvozdik
Tati Gvozdik
746 Points
Tati Gvozdik
Tati Gvozdik
746 Points

Thank you, gusf! It works! But even after refreshing my browser cache. Works only your advice. Do you know why?

Randy Eichelberger
Randy Eichelberger
1,491 Points

Tati Gvozdik Each time you hit refresh/press f5 it does what's known as a soft refresh. This will use the cache but revalidate everything during page load, looking for "304 Not Modified" responses. If the browser can avoid re-downloading cached JavaScript files, images, text files, etc. then it will.

Using shift and hitting f5/refresh button does what's called a hard refresh. You're telling the browser Don't use anything in the cache when making the request. Force the browser do re-download every JavaScript file, image, text file, etc

Images, JS files, things like that that get cached that don't tend to change as frequently are cached for 2 reasons. One it conserves bandwidth and 2 it speeds up the display of the web page because you don't have to download 15 javascript files or images.

Callum Anderson
Callum Anderson
8,837 Points
Callum Anderson
Callum Anderson
8,837 Points

I arrived here with the same question, and SHIFT+F5 solved it for me too. Strange that it wasn't mentioned in the video though - surely Treasure had to hold shift as well?!

RJ SL
RJ SL
2,467 Points

Yeah, fail for not mentioning it in the video. <3 you Treasure.