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HTMLImageElement: referrerPolicy property

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The referrerPolicy property of the HTMLImageElement interface defining which referrer is sent when fetching the resource. It reflects the <img> element’s referrerpolicy content attribute.

Value

A string whose value is one of no-referrer, no-referrer-when-downgrade, origin, origin-when-cross-origin, same-origin, strict-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin, or unsafe-url. For their meanings, see the HTML <img> reference.

Examples

const img = new Image();
img.src = "img/logo.png";
img.referrerPolicy = "origin";

const div = document.getElementById("divAround");
div.appendChild(img); // Fetch the image using the origin as the referrer

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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