How to create a JavaScript callback for knowing when an image is loaded?

.complete + callback

This is a standards compliant method without extra dependencies, and waits no longer than necessary:

var img = document.querySelector('img')

function loaded() {
  alert('loaded')
}

if (img.complete) {
  loaded()
} else {
  img.addEventListener('load', loaded)
  img.addEventListener('error', function() {
      alert('error')
  })
}

Source: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/es6/promises/

Image.onload() will often work.

To use it, you'll need to be sure to bind the event handler before you set the src attribute.

Related Links:

Mozilla on Image.onload()

Example Usage:

    window.onload = function () {

        var logo = document.getElementById('sologo');

        logo.onload = function () {
            alert ("The image has loaded!");		
        };

        setTimeout(function(){
            logo.src = 'https://edmullen.net/test/rc.jpg';         
        }, 5000);
    };

 <html>
    <head>
    <title>Image onload()</title>
    </head>
    <body>

    <img src="#" alt="This image is going to load" id="sologo"/>

    <script type="text/javascript">

    </script>
    </body>
    </html>

You can use the .complete property of the Javascript image class.

I have an application where I store a number of Image objects in an array, that will be dynamically added to the screen, and as they're loading I write updates to another div on the page. Here's a code snippet:

var gAllImages = [];

function makeThumbDivs(thumbnailsBegin, thumbnailsEnd)
{
    gAllImages = [];

    for (var i = thumbnailsBegin; i < thumbnailsEnd; i++) 
    {
        var theImage = new Image();
        theImage.src = "thumbs/" + getFilename(globals.gAllPageGUIDs[i]);
        gAllImages.push(theImage);

        setTimeout('checkForAllImagesLoaded()', 5);
        window.status="Creating thumbnail "+(i+1)+" of " + thumbnailsEnd;

        // make a new div containing that image
        makeASingleThumbDiv(globals.gAllPageGUIDs[i]);
    }
}

function checkForAllImagesLoaded()
{
    for (var i = 0; i < gAllImages.length; i++) {
        if (!gAllImages[i].complete) {
            var percentage = i * 100.0 / (gAllImages.length);
            percentage = percentage.toFixed(0).toString() + ' %';

            userMessagesController.setMessage("loading... " + percentage);
            setTimeout('checkForAllImagesLoaded()', 20);
            return;
        }
    }

    userMessagesController.setMessage(globals.defaultTitle);
}

Life is too short for jquery.

function waitForImageToLoad(imageElement){
  return new Promise(resolve=>{imageElement.onload = resolve})
}

var myImage = document.getElementById('myImage');
var newImageSrc = "https://pmchollywoodlife.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/justin-bieber-bio-photo1.jpg?w=620"

myImage.src = newImageSrc;
waitForImageToLoad(myImage).then(()=>{
  // Image have loaded.
  console.log('Loaded lol')
});

<img id="myImage" src="">

You could use the load()-event in jQuery but it won't always fire if the image is loaded from the browser cache. This plugin https://github.com/peol/jquery.imgloaded/raw/master/ahpi.imgload.js can be used to remedy that problem.

How to create a JavaScript callback for knowing when an image is loaded?

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