This post expands on my original jQuery Preload and Swap Navigation Images post. The original code required you to enter the file extension (eg: jpg, png, gif). The modifications below make this jQuery hover/rollover/swap code totally dynamic 🙂

$(document).ready(function() {
 //preload images
 var preloadedImages = new Array();
 $('#container img').each(function(i) {
 preloadedImages[i] = new Image();
 var ext = $(this).attr('src').split('.').pop();
 preloadedImages[i].src = $(this).attr('src').split('.' + ext).join('-hover.' + ext);
 });
 //rollover effect
 $('#container a').hover(function() {
 var ext = $(this).find('img').attr('src').split('.').pop();
 $(this).find('img').attr('src', $(this).find('img').attr('src').split('.' + ext).join('-hover.' + ext));
 }, function() {
 var ext = $(this).find('img').attr('src').split('.').pop();
 $(this).find('img').attr('src', $(this).find('img').attr('src').split('-hover.' + ext).join('.' + ext));
 });
});

The only significant change from my original code to grab the file extension (var ext = value) before preloading or swapping the images… Continue reading →