jQuery gallery - load image and then animate

Question

is there any possibility how to load an image with jQuery in background and than animate the transition? I have a gallery of big fullscreen images as a background for my website. I have paths of all images in some hidden elements, at first I make the background div bit transparent, than I change the background-image property with jQuery and at last I make it again visible..But there is a bit long time before the image is loaded. I dont want to show any loader or something else..I only want to load the image in background and than male the transition..Is it possible? Thanks

Answer 1

did you try jquery image load

http://api.jquery.com/load-event/