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Why doesn't onerror work when the image is....


Aphanasiy

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Hello folks, could you please explain to me why this script doesn't work?

<span style="background-image:url('http://www.badimage.gif')" onerror="alert('testing')">test</span>

Onerror is supposed to work when my browser downloads an image, if it can't find one the onerror function is fired. Why doesn't it work here when it works in this script?

<img src="http://www.badimage.gif" onerror="alert('testing')">

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Because the <span> does not have an error...the style attribute does if it doesn't load the background.Loading an image and loading a background image are different and obviously trigger events differently.AFAIK there is no way to catch an error when a bg doesn't load.

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Because the <span> does not have an error...the style attribute does if it doesn't load the background.Loading an image and loading a background image are different and obviously trigger events differently.AFAIK there is no way to catch an error when a bg doesn't load.

So how do I trigger an onerror function using the style attribute please?Edit: Sorry for double post.
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