How to get the height of a hidden image?

Question

When a div is hidden (display:none) the browser will not load the images that are inside it. Is there a way to tell the browser to load the image?

Answer 1

I've added some preloading, wrapped it into a function and that does the trick:

function getImageDimension(el, onReady) {    
    var src = typeof el.attr === 'function' ? el.attr('src') : el.src !== undefined ? el.src : el;

    var image = new Image();
    image.onload = function(){
        if(typeof(onReady) == 'function') {
            onReady({
                width: image.width,
                height: image.height
            });
        }
    };
    image.src = src;
}

Can be used as:

getImageDimension($('#img1'), function(d){ alert(d.height); });
var url = 'http://urology.jhu.edu/patrickwalsh/photo1.jpg';
getImageDimension(url, function(d){ alert(d.height); });