Andy,
You can use the onerror event of an image to determine if an image loaded or not. Also, you could load the image using JS's Image object-that way you could display a "loading" image. Here's some example code: http://www.rgagnon.com/jsdetails/js-0083.html -Dan _____ From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Matthews Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 4:50 PM To: [jQuery] Subject: [jQuery] Display loading image while alternate image loads. I have a default image loaded into an img tag with an id of "specialImage". I also have a select box which displays a list of vehicles. The value of each option is a filename (75682.jpg, 75123.jpg, etc.). When the user selects a vehicle, I want to change the src of the img tag but I'm running into a few issues that I'm not sure how to get around. 1) Because I'm not using an AJAX call, I don't know if the file actually exists on the server. A few images are then showing as broken which is a big no no. 2) The images being loaded in aren't huge, but they might be 40k or so. Because I'm simply changing the src, I can't display a loading image while the requested image is loading. Are there ways around this? I'm thinking I could do an AJAX call to get the response headers for the file. When I trigger the AJAX call, I'd display the loading image. Then, if the response comes back 200, then I can display the actual file, if not, I can display a "no image available" image. Any thoughts on this method? Is there a better way to do this? ____________________________________ Andy Matthews Senior ColdFusion Developer Office: 615.627.9747 Fax: 615.467.6249 www.dealerskins.com <http://www.dealerskins.com/> Total customer satisfaction is my number 1 priority! If you are not completely satisfied with the service I have provided, please let me know right away so I can correct the problem, or notify my manager Aaron West at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<image001.jpg>>
