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Better Broken Image Handling

Missing images will either just display nothing, or display a [ ? ] style box when their source cannot be found. Instead you may want to replace that with a "missing image" graphic that you are sure exists so there is better visual feedback that something is wrong. Or, you might want to hide it entirely. This is possible, because images that a browser can't find fire off an "error" JavaScript event we can watch for.

// Replace source
$('img').error(function(){
        $(this).attr('src', 'missing.png');
});

// Or, hide them
$("img").error(function(){
        $(this).hide();
});

Additionally, you may wish to trigger some kind of Ajax action to send an email to a site admin when this occurs.

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  1. Kyle Hayes

    While this is neat and I didn’t know that imgs threw an error if they can’t be loaded, the usefulness of such a block seems low and somewhat heavy (attaching an event-listener to every img on a page) for something that shouldn’t occur very often.

    I could see this being useful in a case where UGC is being created and the user uploads an image, you could try to display the image if its been processed by the server and if not show a placeholder.

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  2. Chandru

    Hi,
    This is chandru from Chennai(india)…
    You hava a amazing site Every works is useful for me,
    keep it up dude…

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  3. Jonathan

    I really want to implement this on my site, but some of the images are rendered via a PHP script, and this bit of code hides those images for some reason. Can anyone help me out? I don’t like that ugly little icon showing up. I have a image sitting behind where the rendered image should be in case it cannot render it because it is trying to pull down a Minecraft skin and if a user did not upload one the default is not rendered.

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    • Jonathan

      Oops, never mind. Works now. Just played around a bit and got it.

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