Question

If an image doesn’t exist, or somehow an image just doesn’t load, is there a way to make it so this message doesn’t show up in the web inspector?

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 (Forbidden)

I have tried these:

<img src="/path.png" onerror="this.src = '/missing.png'; this.onerror = ''; return true;"/>
<img src="/path.png" onerror="this.src = '/missing.png'; this.onerror = ''; return false;"/>

And I’ve tried it in jQuery:

$(document).ready(function() { 
  $("img").error(function(event) {
    $(this).attr("src", "/missing.png");
    return false;
  }
});

That message gets output in red before any of these event handlers get access to it, is there not a way to prevent this message from showing up?

Ideally, I would be able to do this:

$("img").live("error", function() { $(this).attr("src", "/missing.png"); });

so I don’t have to:

1. Write inline javascript like <img onerror='x'/>
2. and it would work on dynamically loaded images.

Answer 1

Unfortunately you would need to check for the existence of the image prior to adding the <img> to the DOM. This check would have to occur server-side as far as I know; even attempting to do this with JQuery/AJAX will still result in a 404 or 403 error appearing in the console.