Asynchronously load images with jQuery

Question

I want to load external images on my page asynchronously using jQuery and I have tried the following:

$.ajax({ 
   url: \"http://somedomain.         


        

Answer 1

You can use a Deferred objects for ASYNC loading.

function load_img_async(source) {
    return $.Deferred (function (task) {
        var image = new Image();
        image.onload = function () {task.resolve(image);}
        image.onerror = function () {task.reject();}
        image.src=source;
    }).promise();
}

$.when(load_img_async(IMAGE_URL)).done(function (image) {
    $(#id).empty().append(image);
});

Please pay attention: image.onload must be before image.src to prevent problems with cache.