jQuery: Check if image exists

Question

I\'m loading an image path via jQuery $.ajax and before showing the image I\'d like to check if it in fact exists. Can I use the image load/ready event or something similar

Answer 1

Since you're already doing an AJAX request, I would offload this to the server-side app that is supporting your AJAX. It's trivial to check to see if a file exists from the server, and you could set variables in the data you send back to specify results.