Question

I have a page that loads content through AJAX. Among this content are some images. I need to do some formatting to the page layout depending on the images sizes (which vary) but in order to get the sizes, I need the images to finish loading first before running the code. If it was in an ordinary page (content loading normally WITHOUT AJAX), all I have to do is use the $(window).load() function but with AJAX it doesn’t trigger for some reasons. I need a workaround to this : a way to execute some code after the images loaded through AJAX finish loading.

Basically, this is what I’m trying to do

ajaxRequest.onreadystatechange = function(){
        if(ajaxRequest.readyState == 4){
document.getElementById("results").innerHTML=ajaxRequest.responseText;
//the responseText includes images among other information to be loaded 
$(window).load(function() {
...some code
});}}

but the $(window).load() never fires and I need to run the code once ALL images have finished loading so binding a load event to every image isn’t really an option.

I have another question that is related and similar to the first one : the jQuery $(document).ready doesn’t seem to fire either after content is loaded through AJAX. I don’t need it right now but I will certainly do in the future, so any workarounds for this too ?

I would really appreciate your help and thanks a lot.

Answer 1

$(window).load works only for the page initial loading.

The only clean solution I see is counting the images (hoping they’re the only problem) and waiting for them to load :

$('#results').load('youurl', function() {
    var $images = $('#contenu img');
    var count = $images.length;
    console.log('initial images count : ', count);
    var decrement = function() {
        if (--count==0) {
            console.log('All images loaded');
            // do something                 
        }
    };
    $images.each(function(){
       if (this.complete) {
           decrement();
       } else {
           this.onload = function(){
                decrement();
           };
       }
    });
});

This is now testable on this site : click a link for a recipe and look at the console.