jQuery/JavaScript to replace broken images

broken-image, html, javascript, jquery

Solution

Handle the `onError` event for the image to reassign its source using JavaScript:

function imgError(image) {
    image.onerror = "";
    image.src = "/images/noimage.gif";
    return true;
}

<img src="image.png" onerror="imgError(this);"/>

Or without a JavaScript function:

<img src="image.png" onError="this.onerror=null;this.src='/images/noimage.gif';" />

The following compatibility table lists the browsers that support the error facility:

http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/events/error.html

Problem

I have a web page that includes a bunch of images. Sometimes the image isn't available, so a broken image is displayed in the client's browser. How do I use jQuery to get the set of images, filter it to broken images then replace the src? --I thought it would be easier to do this with jQuery, but it turned out much easier to just use a pure JavaScript solution, that is, the one provided by Prestaul.

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