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Add <img controls>

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Description

### MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/img

### What specific section or headline is this issue about?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/img#attributes

### What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

The new `controls` attribute is missing.

### What did you expect to see?

`controls`

### Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12151

### Do you have anything more you want to share?

If you give any examples of which controls to expect, use a "fullscreen" button, and not controls for playback of animated images (at least until https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12318 is resolved).

### MDN metadata

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* Folder: `en-us/web/html/reference/elements/img`
* MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/img
* GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/html/reference/elements/img/index.md
* Last commit: https://github.com/mdn/content/commit/743ba8b257cd06449b192818df120e609f6e16d2
* Document last modified: 2026-04-05T07:15:11.000Z

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