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Bennett Upfield
Bennett Upfield

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JPGs and URL.createObjectURL()

CreatingImageUrls

Lets say for some abstract reason completely unrelated to this other post of mine (Hmmm) you have a javascript File object that is of image and you want to display it on your site instead of simply pulling an url for and image. Now if you had this image you could use this cool Url method, URL.createObjectURL(). The code would be

const interpretedImage = URL.createObjectURL(imgFile);
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And to use this created url image on your html image element use the interpretedImage variable as the src. However do make sure the file is unnamed as the name of the file will appear in the image if you name it.

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