Jquery — Fire event when all images have loaded within element

I needed a smooth fadeIn effect after all images had been loaded in a specific element.

I solved the problem by incrementing a load counter and executing a function when the counter reaches the number of elements to load.

load_counter = 0;
$.each(my_images, function(i, item) {
    $(item).load(function() {
        load_counter ++;
        if (load_counter == my_images.length) {
            // all items have loaded
            $("#my_element").fadeIn();
        }
    })
})