Official way to ask jQuery wait for all images to load before executing something

Simon_16940 0
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In jQuery when you do this:

$(function() {
   alert("DOM is loaded, but images not necessarily all loaded");
});

It waits for the DOM to load and executes your code. If all the images are not loaded then it still executes the code. This is obviously what we want if we're initializing any DOM stuff such as showing or hiding elements or attaching events.

Let's say though that I want some animation and I don't want it running until all the images are loaded. Is there an official way in jQuery to do this?

The best way I have is to use <body onload="finished()">, but I don't really want to do that unless I have to.

Note: There is a bug in jQuery 1.3.1 in Internet Explorer which actually does wait for all images to load before executing code inside $function() { }. So if you're using that platform you'll get the behavior I'm looking for instead of the correct behavior described above.

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11 Answers

With jQuery, you use $(document).ready() to execute something when the DOM is loaded and $(window).on("load", handler) to execute something when all other things are loaded as well, such as the images.

The difference can be seen in the following complete HTML file, provided you have a lot of jollyrogerNN JPEG files (or other suitable ones):

<html>
    <head>
        <script src="jquery-1.7.1.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            $(document).ready(function() {
                alert ("done");
            });
        </script>
    </head><body>
        Hello
        <img src="jollyroger00.jpg">
        <img src="jollyroger01.jpg">
        // : 100 copies of this in total
        <img src="jollyroger99.jpg">
    </body>
</html>

With that, the alert box appears before the images are loaded, because the DOM is ready at that point. If you then change:

$(document).ready(function() {

into:

$(window).on("load", function() {

then the alert box doesn't appear until after the images are loaded.

Hence, to wait until the entire page is ready, you could use something like:

$(window).on("load", function() {
    // weave your magic here.
});
user_148600

$(window).load() will work only the first time the page is loaded. If you are doing dynamic stuff (example: click button, wait for some new images to load), this won't work. To achieve that, you can use my plugin:

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/**
 *  Plugin which is applied on a list of img objects and calls
 *  the specified callback function, only when all of them are loaded (or errored).
 *  @version: 1.0.0 (Feb/22/2010)
 */

(function($) {
$.fn.batchImageLoad = function(options) {
    var images = $(this);
    var originalTotalImagesCount = images.size();
    var totalImagesCount = originalTotalImagesCount;
    var elementsLoaded = 0;

    // Init
    $.fn.batchImageLoad.defaults = {
        loadingCompleteCallback: null, 
        imageLoadedCallback: null
    }
    var opts = $.extend({}, $.fn.batchImageLoad.defaults, options);
        
    // Start
    images.each(function() {
        // The image has already been loaded (cached)
        if ($(this)[0].complete) {
            totalImagesCount--;
            if (opts.imageLoadedCallback) opts.imageLoadedCallback(elementsLoaded, originalTotalImagesCount);
        // The image is loading, so attach the listener
        } else {
            $(this).load(function() {
                elementsLoaded++;
                
                if (opts.imageLoadedCallback) opts.imageLoadedCallback(elementsLoaded, originalTotalImagesCount);

                // An image has been loaded
                if (elementsLoaded >= totalImagesCount)
                    if (opts.loadingCompleteCallback) opts.loadingCompleteCallback();
            });
            $(this).error(function() {
                elementsLoaded++;
                
                if (opts.imageLoadedCallback) opts.imageLoadedCallback(elementsLoaded, originalTotalImagesCount);
                    
                // The image has errored
                if (elementsLoaded >= totalImagesCount)
                    if (opts.loadingCompleteCallback) opts.loadingCompleteCallback();
            });
        }
    });

    // There are no unloaded images
    if (totalImagesCount <= 0)
        if (opts.loadingCompleteCallback) opts.loadingCompleteCallback();
};
})(jQuery);
user_2532660

None of the answers so far have given what seems to be the simplest solution.

$('#image_id').load(
  function () {
    //code here
});
user_18123550

I've found this solution by: @Luca Matteis Here: https://www.examplefiles.net/cs/508021

But I edited it a little bit, as shown:

function showImage(el){
    $(el).removeClass('hidden');
    $(el).addClass('show');

    $(el).prev().removeClass('show');
    $(el).prev().addClass('hidden');
}

<img src="temp_image.png" />
<img class="hidden" src="blah.png" onload="showImage(this);"/>
user_49052030
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