I'm looking for a quick and easy way to preload images with JavaScript. I'm using jQuery if that's important. I saw this here (http://nettuts.com...): function complexLoad(config, fileNames) { for (var x = 0; x < fileNames.length; x++) { $("<img>").attr({ id: fileNames[x], src: config.imgDir + fileNames[x] + config.imgFormat, title: "The " + fileNames[x] + " nebula" }).appendTo("#" + config.imgCon