How can I check if a background image is loaded?

Question

I want to set a background image on the body tag, then run some code - like this:

$(\'body\').css(\'background-image\',\'http://picture.de/image.png\').load(         


        

Answer 1

I've located a solution that worked better for me, and which has the advantage of being usable with several images (case not illustrated in this example).

From @adeneo's answer on this question :

If you have an element with a background image, like this

<div id="test" style="background-image: url(link/to/image.png)"><div>

You can wait for the background to load by getting the image URL and using it for an image object in javascript with an onload handler

var src = $('#test').css('background-image');
var url = src.match(/\((.*?)\)/)[1].replace(/('|")/g,'');

var img = new Image();
img.onload = function() {
    alert('image loaded');
}
img.src = url;
if (img.complete) img.onload();

Answer 2

try this:

$('<img/>').attr('src', 'http://picture.de/image.png').on('load', function() {
   $(this).remove(); // prevent memory leaks as @benweet suggested
   $('body').css('background-image', 'url(http://picture.de/image.png)');
});

this will create new image in memory and use load event to detect when the src is loaded.

Answer 3

https://github.com/alexanderdickson/waitForImages

$('selector').waitForImages({
    finished: function() {
       // ...
    },
    each: function() {
       // ...
    },
    waitForAll: true
});

Answer 4

pure JS solution that will add preloader, set the background-image and then set it up for garbage collection along with it's event listener:

Short version:

const imageUrl = "https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png";
let bgElement = document.querySelector("body");
let preloaderImg = document.createElement("img");
preloaderImg.src = imageUrl;

preloaderImg.addEventListener('load', (event) => {
    bgElement.style.backgroundImage = `url(${imageUrl})`;
    preloaderImg = null;
});

A bit longer with nice opacity transition:

const imageUrl = "https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png";
let bgElement = document.querySelector(".bg-lazy");
bgElement.classList.add("bg-loading");
let preloaderImg = document.createElement("img");
preloaderImg.src = imageUrl;

preloaderImg.addEventListener('load', (event) => {
  bgElement.classList.remove("bg-loading");
  bgElement.style.backgroundImage = `url(${imageUrl})`;
  preloaderImg = null;
});

.bg-lazy {
  height: 100vh;
  width: 100vw;
  transition: opacity 1s ease-out;
}

.bg-loading {
  opacity: 0;
}

<div class="bg-lazy"></div>

Answer 5

I did a pure javascript hack to make this possible.

<div class="my_background_image" style="background-image: url(broken-image.jpg)">
<img class="image_error" src="broken-image.jpg" onerror="this.parentElement.style.display='none';">
</div>

Or

onerror="this.parentElement.backgroundImage = "url('image_placeHolder.png')";

css:

.image_error {
    display: none;
}

Answer 6

I have a jQuery plugin called waitForImages that can detect when background images have downloaded.

$('body')
  .css('background-image','url(http://picture.de/image.png)')
  .waitForImages(function() {
    alert('Background image done loading');
    // This *does* work
  }, $.noop, true);