Image Placeholder

Question

I have defined the image tag with a background color so that if there is no image the color should show but still the broken image icon is showing how to remove that ?

I dont want to make the page bulky by adding jquery or any framework , also i cant add any kind of divs to images because the site is almost done.

Found the answer with only javascript

function ImgError(source){
source.src = "/images/noimage.gif";
source.onerror = "";
return true;
}

<img src="someimage.png" onerror="ImgError(this);"/>

Solution 1

you can hide that using following:

<img
  src="my.png"
  onerror="this.style.display='none'"
/>

you can display another image if image not found as follow:

<img src="my.png" onerror="this.src = 'image-not-found.png';" />

Solution 2

Solution with 1x1 empty png

        function ImgError(source){
            empty1x1png = "iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVQI12NgYAAAAAMAASDVlMcAAAAASUVORK5CYII=";
            source.src = "data:image/png;base64," + empty1x1png;
            source.onerror = "";
            return true;
        }

        <img src="someimage.png" onerror="ImgError(this);"/>

Solution 3

A simple solution would be to use, literally, a placeholder blank image. This is generally used for sprites but I think you could use this as well.

What you do is, you create a 1x1 px blank gif image with transparency enabled, direct the "src" atrribute to the blank.gif and give the images via the css background-image property. Therefore, even if the background image is not found, it won't show the broken link image.

Solution 4

It's a feature of some browsers - as far as I can recall, Firefox, Chrome and Safari show nothing while Internet Explorer shows a broken image icon. Short of using Javascript, I don't believe you can override this behaviour.

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