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Thomas Rothrock
474 Pointshaving issues on a video
one of the videos tells me to copy and paste a image url and says it should be a different image everytime i refresh the page on my end it is not a different image every time i refresh
2 Answers
Steven Parker
231,261 PointsYour browser is probably trying to be efficient by caching the image and not getting it again from the network. Usually there's a way in the browser to tell it to refresh without using the cache (I think it's Ctrl+F5 in Chrome).
I have also "tricked" browsers by using JavaScript to add some random junk to the URL as a query string. Then it always re-fetches because the URL isn't in the cache. For example:
document.querySelector("img").src += "?nocache=" + Math.random();
Use a more specific selector if your image is not the first one on the page.
Thomas Rothrock
474 Pointsthank you that worked but when you click the refresh button with your cursor it does not change the image is that a problem on my end
Steven Parker
231,261 PointsIT doesn't change it even with the script code installed?
If you mean without it, the standard refresh will almost certainly use caching. But depending on the browser, perhaps a Ctrl+click (or shift+click or alt+click?) would load without the cache.