# GIF animations cannot be pasted in

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/gif-animations-cannot-be-pasted-in/28179>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [2015年五月1日 03:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gif-animations-cannot-be-pasted-in/28179 "2015-05-01T03:02:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\
**Post date:** [2022年三月16日 17:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gif-animations-cannot-be-pasted-in/28179/13 "2022-03-16T17:40:05Z")

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> [@Allow pasting of GIFs into composer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-pasting-of-gifs-into-composer/218720?u=falco):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Is it possible to paste images as their source address?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-paste-images-as-their-source-address/218554): If you right click and select “Copy Image” on a GIF you found on the internet with your browser, your clipboard will be populated with two elements: A static PNG image of the GIF as image/png An HTML img tag with the GIF source as text/html For most use cases, it’s a far better user experience to pick the option 1 in the clipboard and upload that image right away in the composer, so that is what we alwa…

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