# Little Javascript tip...OnError for Images...

<datetime class="hidden">2003-10-11T00:00</datetime>
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posted on [1:03 AM](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.mostlylucid.co.uk/archive/2003/10/11/583.aspx)

This is an odd little tip...not sure where I found this out, but I use it a fair bit...if you have an image which you're not sure will be available, add this to the img tag: OnError="this.src='/images/shim.gif';this.width='1';this.height='1'" (where images/shim.gif is an image which will ALWAYS be available - if not you'll get an odd error...).

Anyway, prevents the ugly broken image thing...