With jQuery this is working for me :
$('img').error(function() {
$(this).attr('src', '/no-img.png').addClass('no-img');
});
And I can use this picture everywhere on my website regardless of the size of it with the following CSS3 property :
img.no-img {
object-fit: cover;
object-position: 50% 50%;
}
TIP 1 : use a square image of at least 800 x 800 pixels.
TIP 2 : for use with portrait of people, use
object-position: 20% 50%;
For missing background images, I also added the following on each background-image
declaration :
background-image: url('path-to-image.png'), url('no-img.png');
NOTE : not working for transparent images.
Another solution is to detect missing image with Apache before to send to browser and remplace it by the default no-img.png content.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /images/.*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png)$
RewriteRule .* /images/no-img.png [L,R=307]