Get image src with jQuery

Question

<img src="../img/arnold.png" alt="Arnold"> 

How do I get with jQuery absolute path of this image?

img.attr("src") gives me just "../img/arnold.png", should give something like "http://site.com/data/2011/img/arnold.png" (full url).

Answer 1

alert( $('img')[0].src ); 

this might do the trick... but not sure about cross browser....

demo in here

also try prop of jQuery 1.6..

alert( $('img').prop('src') ); 

demo here

Answer 2

I don't know that you can get it with jQuery, but you can get it with just the native JavaScript image object.

var getSrc = function(imgSource) {     var img = new Image();     img.src = imgSource;     return img.src; }; 

Just call it with x = getSrc(srcAttribute) or something similar where your parameter is the string or literal holding the src you currently have in your html/image. It will return something like http://your/site/path/to/image.jpg

http://jsfiddle.net/BradleyStaples/cQMjQ/