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Image request fired as soon as src is set

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#26,560 opened on May 3, 2023

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Description

MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLImageElement/src

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What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

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What did you expect to see?

It's worth mentioning that a request to the specified URL is fired as soon as src is set, without even attaching the element to DOM.

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Confirm the behavior by testing in a browser or referencing the spec, then add a note in the documentation that setting src immediately triggers a request, even before the element is attached to the DOM.
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html
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documentation
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