[javascript] Detect when an image fails to load in Javascript

jQuery + CSS for img

With jQuery this is working for me :

$('img').error(function() {
    $(this).attr('src', '/no-img.png').addClass('no-img');
});

And I can use this picture everywhere on my website regardless of the size of it with the following CSS3 property :

img.no-img {
    object-fit: cover;
    object-position: 50% 50%;
}

TIP 1 : use a square image of at least 800 x 800 pixels.

TIP 2 : for use with portrait of people, use object-position: 20% 50%;

CSS only for background-img

For missing background images, I also added the following on each background-image declaration :

background-image: url('path-to-image.png'), url('no-img.png');

NOTE : not working for transparent images.

Apache server side

Another solution is to detect missing image with Apache before to send to browser and remplace it by the default no-img.png content.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /images/.*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png)$
RewriteRule .* /images/no-img.png [L,R=307]