How To Change image src with jQuery

In this tutorial we will learn How To Change image src with jQuery. For this we can use jQuery attr() Method or prop() Method, both of them can change the value of src attribute of img tag.

jQuery attr() Method

jQuery attr() Method sets or returns the value of the HTML attributes of HTML tags.

jQuery prop() Method

jQuery prop() Method sets properties and values of HTML elements.

HTML Code

HTML Code is given below, in this code we have a image tag and a button tag.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>jQuery Change image src</title> 
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.js"></script>    
<style>
.responsive
{
width: 100%;    
}
</style>    
</head>             
<body>
    
<img src="car.jpg" id='image' class="responsive">
<button id='btn'>Change Image Src</button>     
<script src="script.js"></script>    
</body>
</html>

JQuery Code

JQuery Code is given below.

$('#image') is an id selector used to select the img tag.

Then attr() method will change the src attribute value. This will change the image on the web page.

This is done on click of a button using click() method.

<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
  $('#btn').click(function(){
       $('#image').attr("src","bike.jpg") 
   }); 
});
</script>

We can also used prop() method to change the src of img tag.

<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
  $('#btn').click(function(){
       $('#image').prop("src","bike.jpg") 
   }); 
});
</script>

Demo

Video Tutorial

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