Check if an image is loaded (no errors) in JavaScript

Question

I'm using JavaScript with the jQuery library to manipulate image thumbnails contained in a unordered list. When the image is loaded it does one thing, when an error occurs it does something else. I'm using jQuery load() and error() methods as events. After these events I check the image DOM element for the .complete to make sure the image wasn't already loaded before jQuery could register the events.

It works correctly except when an error occurs before jQuery can register the events. The only solution I can think of is to use the img onerror attribute to store a "flag" somewhere globally (or on the node it's self) that says it failed so jQuery can check that "store/node" when checking .complete.

Anyone have a better solution?

Edit: Bolded main points and added extra detail below: I'm checking if an image is complete (aka loaded) AFTER I add a load and error event on the image. That way, if the image was loaded before the events were registered, I will still know. If the image isn't loaded after the events then the events will take care of it when it does. The problem with this is, I can easily check if an image is loaded already, but I can't tell if an error occurred instead.

Answer 1

Check the complete and naturalWidth properties, in that order.

http://www.sajithmr.me/javascript-check-an-image-is-loaded-or-not/

function IsImageOk(img) {
    // During the onload event, IE correctly identifies any images that
    // weren’t downloaded as not complete. Others should too. Gecko-based
    // browsers act like NS4 in that they report this incorrectly.
    if (!img.complete) {
        return false;
    }

    // However, they do have two very useful properties: naturalWidth and
    // naturalHeight. These give the true size of the image. If it failed
    // to load, either of these should be zero.

    if (typeof img.naturalWidth != “undefined” && img.naturalWidth == 0) {
        return false;
    }

    // No other way of checking: assume it’s ok.
    return true;
}

Answer 2

Another option is to trigger the onload and/or onerror events by setting the image's src to empty string then back to the original src. Here's an example of what I mean:

$(img).load(function() { console.log("image loaded correctly"); }
      .error(function() { console.log("error loading image"); }

var imgSrc = img.src;
img.src = "";
img.src = imgSrc; // Triggers onload and onerror events.

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

Thanks for Sharing.. its working