Check if image exists on server using JavaScript?

Using javascript is there a way to tell if a resource is available on the server? For instance I have images 1.jpg - 5.jpg loaded into the html page. I'd like to call a JavaScript function every minute or so that would roughly do the following scratch code...

if "../imgs/6.jpg" exists:
    var nImg = document.createElement("img6");
    nImg.src = "../imgs/6.jpg";

Thoughts? Thanks!

You could use something like:

function imageExists(image_url){

    var http = new XMLHttpRequest();

    http.open('HEAD', image_url, false);
    http.send();

    return http.status != 404;

}

Obviously you could use jQuery/similar to perform your HTTP request.

$.get(image_url)
    .done(function() { 
        // Do something now you know the image exists.

    }).fail(function() { 
        // Image doesn't exist - do something else.

    })

You can use the basic way image preloaders work to test if an image exists.

function checkImage(imageSrc, good, bad) {
    var img = new Image();
    img.onload = good; 
    img.onerror = bad;
    img.src = imageSrc;
}

checkImage("foo.gif", function(){ alert("good"); }, function(){ alert("bad"); } );

JSFiddle

You can just check if the image loads or not by using the built in events that is provided for all images.

The onload and onerror events will tell you if the image loaded successfully or if an error occured :

var image = new Image();

image.onload = function() {
    // image exists and is loaded
    document.body.appendChild(image);
}
image.onerror = function() {
    // image did not load

    var err = new Image();
    err.src = '/error.png';

    document.body.appendChild(err);
}

image.src = "../imgs/6.jpg";