image.onload event and browser cache

javascript image-loading

Oto Shavadze · Sep 10, 2012 · Viewed 206k times · Source

I want to create an alert box after an image is loaded, but if the image is saved in the browser cache, the .onload event will not be fired.

How do I trigger an alert when an image has been loaded regardless of whether the image has been cached or not?

var img = new Image();
img.src = "img.jpg";
img.onload = function () {
   alert("image is loaded");
}

Answer

As you're generating the image dynamically, set the onload property before the src.

var img = new Image();
img.onload = function () {
   alert("image is loaded");
}
img.src = "img.jpg";

Fiddle - tested on latest Firefox and Chrome releases.

You can also use the answer in this post, which I adapted for a single dynamically generated image:

var img = new Image();
// 'load' event
$(img).on('load', function() {
  alert("image is loaded");
});
img.src = "img.jpg";