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HTML

<a href="http://placehold.it/300x18/&text=image.jpg"><img src="http://placehold.it/100/&text=thumb.jpg" alt="" /></a>

JavaScript

// add a refresh button to image previews
$('a[href*="placehold.it"]').after('<div class="refresh-image"><button class="refresh-image-button">Refresh</button></div>');

$(".refresh-image-button").click(function() {
    var newAttr = $('img[src*="placehold.it"]').attr("src").split("?")[0] + "?ver=" + new Date().getTime();;
    //var newAttr = img.attr("src").split("?")[0] + "?ver=" + new Date().getTime();
    $('img[src*="placehold.it"]').attr("src",newAttr);
});