diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/dispatcher.js.es6 b/app/assets/javascripts/dispatcher.js.es6
index dcf67a8fd686c82882e429fbd408a8937f77666a..529d476ca4e4556debc8b6949de30e97d198307f 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/dispatcher.js.es6
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/dispatcher.js.es6
@@ -261,6 +261,9 @@
         case 'projects:artifacts:browse':
           new BuildArtifacts();
           break;
+        case 'help:index':
+          gl.VersionCheckImage.bindErrorEvent($('img.js-version-status-badge'));
+          break;
         case 'search:show':
           new Search();
           break;
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/version_check_image.js.es6 b/app/assets/javascripts/version_check_image.js.es6
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1fa2b5ac3995ab1def54eda8755d167cf762aca1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/version_check_image.js.es6
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+(() => {
+  class VersionCheckImage {
+    static bindErrorEvent(imageElement) {
+      imageElement.off('error').on('error', () => imageElement.hide());
+    }
+  }
+
+  window.gl = window.gl || {};
+  gl.VersionCheckImage = VersionCheckImage;
+})();
diff --git a/app/helpers/version_check_helper.rb b/app/helpers/version_check_helper.rb
index a674564c4ec8c2d0364cf865b94b3781b4766da2..456598b4c28cc26721f5750209bfb70c2574a89a 100644
--- a/app/helpers/version_check_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/version_check_helper.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 module VersionCheckHelper
   def version_status_badge
     if Rails.env.production? && current_application_settings.version_check_enabled
-      image_tag VersionCheck.new.url
+      image_url = VersionCheck.new.url
+      image_tag image_url, class: 'js-version-status-badge'
     end
   end
 end
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/broken_iamge_when_doing_offline_update_check-help_page-.yml b/changelogs/unreleased/broken_iamge_when_doing_offline_update_check-help_page-.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77750b55e7e440da1ae174a66847e1b1a528bc7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/broken_iamge_when_doing_offline_update_check-help_page-.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+title: Hide version check image if there is no internet connection
+merge_request: 8355
+author: Ken Ding