HTML Picture Element Responsive Images

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I'm a full-stack developer from South Africa 🇿🇦. I love writing about JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
It's the power of simplicity sometimes! But sadly enough a HTML Feature I don't see often in companies.
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Today we'll be looking at the HTML Picture element. It can be used to have native responsive image support.
So how it works is we wrap our normal img tag inside a picture element and add srcset images.
This will then be defining on media queries which image it shows.
Ok, let's get started!
For this example, we will be using extreme cases, normally you would just use a modified version of your original image but in a smaller size or different orientation.
<picture>
<source
media="(min-width: 650px)"
srcset="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1589965716319-4a041b58fa8a?ixlib=rb-1.2.1&ixid=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjEyMDd9&auto=format&fit=crop&w=1867&q=80"
/>
<source
media="(min-width: 465px)"
srcset="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1534235261404-7625cd79bdb9?ixlib=rb-1.2.1&ixid=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjEyMDd9&auto=format&fit=crop&w=1950&q=80"
/>
<img
src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1537151608828-ea2b11777ee8?ixlib=rb-1.2.1&ixid=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjEyMDd9&auto=format&fit=crop&w=939&q=80"
alt="A amazing corgi dog"
/>
</picture>
Now on we should see the following:
Now isn't that amazing!
To make this function even better, add loading="lazy".
Feel free to view these Corgis on Codepen.
A super cool feature, but not supported by IE and Opera mini as expected. However! They will fallback to the default image! So no real objection to using it!

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