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

Question

In jQuery when you do this:

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

It waits for the DOM to

Answer 1

For those who want to be notified of download completion of a single image that gets requested after $(window).load fires, you can use the image element's load event.

e.g.:

// create a dialog box with an embedded image
var $dialog = $("
");

// get the image element (as a jQuery object)
var $imgElement = $dialog.find("img");

// wait for the image to load 
$imgElement.load(function() {
    alert("The image has loaded; width: " + $imgElement.width() + "px");
});