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

I wrote a plugin that can fire callbacks when images have loaded in elements, or fire once per image loaded.

It is similar to $(window).load(function() { .. }), except it lets you define any selector to check. If you only want to know when all images in #content (for example) have loaded, this is the plugin for you.

It also supports loading of images referenced in the CSS, such as background-image, list-style-image, etc.

waitForImages jQuery plugin

• GitHub repository.
• Readme.
• Production source.
• Development source.

Example Usage

$('selector').waitForImages(function() {
    alert('All images are loaded.');
});

Example on jsFiddle.

More documentation is available on the GitHub page.