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How to address prefetched assets from CSS?

I'm trying to use prefetched resources, but I cannot figure out how to address them from CSS. <link rel="prefetch" href="icons/fullscreen_1.svg" as="image" /> <link rel="prefetch" href="fonts/Quattrocento-Regular.ttf" as="font" /> The prefetching itself works with the link tags above. However, when I open the menu where the assets are needed, new requests are sent to the server. Getting image/font in CSS: .fscr_btn_state_off { background-image: url("icons/fullscreen_1.svg"); } @font-face { font-family: quattrocento_reg; src: url("fonts/Quattrocento-Regular.ttf"); } It looks like using url(...) will always fetch the items in question again, regardless of any prefetching. What would be the right value for background-image and src to get the image/font from the browser cache?

21st May 2021, 3:50 PM
Kurt Sicht
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10th Jun 2021, 3:52 AM
George Ryan
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