How to replace broken images with JQuery?

This morning, I found a very useful JQuery tip posted by StackOverflow's member Prestaul.

Thanks to him, I discovered that some browsers expose an onerror event on the image tag! The onerror event is triggered if an error occurs while loading an external file (e.g. a document or an image).

This is a great solution to replace broken images when they are not hosted on your own website.



Here is a working example:

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