Turns out it’s possible to style broken images. You know, from this:
To this:
But just “how”, one might ask?
Because the
<img>element is a replaced element controlled by an external source, the:beforeand:afterpseudo-elements typically shouldn’t work with it. However, when the image is broken and not loaded, these pseudo-elements can appear.
With that foot set in the door, the possibilities are endless …