wait until images in background (css) are loaded

Question

Let\'s say we have a slideshow of pictures. the thumbnails of those pictures are showed in div wrapper with a slider (that I created with Jquery) and each image is included

Answer 1

It looks for elements with src attribute or backgroundImage css property and calls an action function when theirs images loaded.

/**
 * Load and wait for loading images.
 */
function loadImages(images, action){
    var loaded_images = 0;
    var bad_tags = 0;        

    $(images).each(function() {
    //alert($(this).get(0).tagName+" "+$(this).attr("id")+" "+$(this).css("display"));
        var image = new Image();
        var src = $(this).attr("src");
        var backgroundImage = $(this).css("backgroundImage");            
        // Search for css background style
        if(src == undefined && backgroundImage != "none"){
            var pattern = /url\("{0,1}([^"]*)"{0,1}\)/;                
            src = pattern.exec(backgroundImage)[1];                
        }else{
            bad_tags++;
        }
        // Load images
        $(image).load(function() {
            loaded_images++;                
            if(loaded_images == ($(images).length - bad_tags))
                action();
        })
        .attr("src", src);
    });
}