Filter Image Types Using jQuery

I came across an interesting requirement recently. The application was similar to an image viewer and allowed users to filter out different image types on the click on a button. For eg: If the page contained .jpeg, .gif and .png’s, you could on the click on a button, hide the images with the .gif extension. Here’s how I solved the requirement:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<
head runat="server">
<
title></title>

<
script src="Scripts/jquery-1.3.2.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<
script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#btn').click(function() {
$('img').each(function() {
if ($(this).is('[src$=.gif],[src$=.Gif],[src$=.GIF]'))
$(this).hide();
});
});
});

</script>
</
head>
<
body>
<
form id="form1" runat="server">
<
div>
<
img alt="" src="images/emo.jpg" />
<
img alt="" src="images/icon068.gif" />
<
img alt="" src="images/icon260.jpg" />
<
input id="btn" type="button" value="Hide Gif's" />
</
div>
</
form>

</
body>
</
html>

Initially all the images will be displayed.

image

On the click of the ‘Hide Gif’s’ button, all the gif’s will get hidden. In our case, the 2nd image is a .gif

image






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2 comments:

Jesús María said...

tis is a wonderful tip i can use in my image viewer. thank you million times.

Unknown said...

Seems like using jQuery's filter() and regex is a little simpler and more extensible:

$('img').filter(function(){ return this.src.match(/.gif$/i); }).hide();

Or if you plan on hiding different extensions:
function hideImagesByExt(ext) {
$('img').filter(function(){ return this.src.match(new RegExp('.' + ext + '$', 'i'); }).hide();
}

hideImagesByExt('gif');
hideImagesByExt('jpg');