The Book of JavaScript, 2nd Edition

Image

JavaScript stores images in the images array of the document object. A user may create a new image object as follows:

var new_image = new Image();

This statement creates a new image and sets its src property to a GIF or JPEG, then preloads that file. See Chapter 4 for more information about images and preloading.

Properties

align	FF, IE 4	Orientation of an image relative to the surrounding text. Values can be: absbottom, absmiddle, baseline, bottom, left, middle, right, texttop, top
alt	FF, IE 4	alt text of an image
border	FF, IE 4	Size of the border around the image

Example:

var the_border_size = window.document.my_image.border;

complete

FF, IE 4

Read-only: true if the image has completely downloaded and false otherwise

Example:

if (window.document.pretty_bird.complete) ...