Is it possible to set the equivalent of a src attribute of an img tag in CSS?

Question

Is it possible to set the src attribute value in CSS? At present, what I am doing is:

Answer 1

Any method based on background or background-image is likely to fail when user prints the document with "print background colors and images" disabled. Which is unfortunately typical browser's default.

The only print-friendly and cross-browser compatible method here is the one proposed by Bronx.