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copied!<p><strike>I haven't done this in a while, but I had to go through this same thing once.</p> <pre><code><img src="about:blank" alt="" /> </code></pre> <p>Is my favorite - the <code>//:0</code> one implies that you'll try to make an HTTP/HTTPS connection to the origin server on port zero (the tcpmux port?) - which is probably harmless, but I'd rather not do anyways. Heck, the browser may see the port zero and not even send a request. But I'd still rather it not be specified that way when that's probably not what you mean.</p> <p>Anyways, the rendering of <code>about:blank</code> is actually very fast in all browsers that I tested. I just threw it into the W3C validator and it didn't complain, so it might even be valid.</strike></p> <p><strong>Edit</strong>: Don't do that; it doesn't work on all browsers (it will show a 'broken image' icon as pointed out in the comments for this answer). Use the <code><img src='data:...</code> solution below. Or if you don't care about validity, but still want to avoid superfluous requests to your server, you can do <code><img alt="" /></code> with no src attribute. But that is <em>INVALID</em> HTML so pick that carefully.</p> <p><strike>Test Page showing a whole bunch of different methods: <a href="http://desk.nu/blank_image.php" rel="nofollow">http://desk.nu/blank_image.php</a> - served with all kinds of different doctypes and content-types.</strike> - as mentioned in the comments below, use Mark Ormston's new test page at: <a href="http://memso.com/Test/BlankImage.html" rel="nofollow">http://memso.com/Test/BlankImage.html</a></p>

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