An alternative to onerror 1

[bl4hster]

Ya, so i need to use the <img attribte onerror to load placeholder images on all dead image links, so that my page isnt full of that awful missing "X" thumbnails.

UNfortunatly onerror is not valid xhtml transitional.

The images are on REMOTE servers, so using a server side solution isnt really efficiant.

Anyway, my pages are not xhtml valid because of this one error. I feel like crap about it. If anyone has an xhtml valid solution, please share as uim sure there are many others looking for a solution to the same problem

 

[Foamcow]

How about a javascript function that looped through the DOM to get the image tags, checked their status and replace the src attribute accordingly?

<honk>*:O)</honk>
Foamcow Heavy Industries - Web site design in Cheltenham and Gloucester
Ham and Jam - British & Commonwealth forces mod for Half Life 2

 

[Foamcow]

Here's a quick solution... you might get a better one in the Javascript forum (forum216)

window.onload=function(){
	var imageList = document.getElementsByTagName('IMG');
	var i;
	for(i=0;i<imageList.length;i++){
		if(imageList[i].height <= 1){
			imageList[i].setAttribute('src','images/noImage.gif');
		}
	}
}

<honk>*:O)</honk>
Foamcow Heavy Industries - Web site design in Cheltenham and Gloucester
Ham and Jam - British & Commonwealth forces mod for Half Life 2

 

[bl4hster]

hey thanks a lot Foamcow. ill play with that snipplet, and get some ideas from the javascript forum. Thanks again for the help