HTMLImageElement: crossOrigin property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The crossOrigin property of the HTMLImageElement interface is a string which specifies the Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) setting to use when retrieving the image. It reflects the <img> element's crossorigin content attribute.

Value

A string whose value is one of anonymous or use-credentials. For their meanings, see the HTML crossorigin attribute reference.

Examples

Setting the crossorigin attribute

In this example, a new <img> element is created and added to the document, loading the image with the Anonymous state; the image will be loaded using CORS and credentials will be used for all cross-origin loads.

JavaScript

The code below demonstrates setting the crossOrigin property on an <img> element to configure CORS access for the fetch of a newly-created image.

js
const container = document.querySelector(".container"); function loadImage(url) { const image = new Image(200, 200); image.addEventListener("load", () => container.prepend(image)); image.addEventListener("error", () => { const errMsg = document.createElement("output"); errMsg.value = `Error loading image at ${url}`; container.append(errMsg); }); image.crossOrigin = "anonymous"; image.alt = ""; image.src = url; } loadImage("/shared-assets/images/examples/balloon.jpg"); 

HTML

html
<div class="container"> <p> Here's a paragraph. It's a very interesting paragraph. You are captivated by this paragraph. Keep reading this paragraph. Okay, now you can stop reading this paragraph. Thanks for reading me. </p> </div> 

CSS

css
body { font: 1.125rem/1.5 "Helvetica", "Arial", sans-serif; } .container { display: flow-root; width: 37.5em; border: 1px solid #d2d2d2; } img { float: left; padding-right: 1.5em; } output { background: rgb(100 100 100 / 100%); font-family: "Courier New", monospace; width: 95%; } 

Result

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-img-crossorigin

Browser compatibility

See also