# Pasting animated gif inserts as static gif
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-animated-gif-inserts-as-static-gif/56013
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [1월 19, 2017, 9:42오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-animated-gif-inserts-as-static-gif/56013 "2017-01-19T09:42:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@sirtet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sirtet)
#### Post date: [1월 19, 2017, 9:42오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-animated-gif-inserts-as-static-gif/56013/1 "2017-01-19T09:42:44Z")
Copy-pasting in chrome results in
drag’n drop win 10 explorer \>\> chrome
results in the animated gif…
In XenForo, i have no problems copy-pasting those gif’s…
There’s a closed support thread, so i open a bug-thread…
> [@GIF animations cannot be pasted in](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gif-animations-cannot-be-pasted-in/28179/8):
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> Excellent observation Same image copy - ctrl+v [image] drag - drop [image]
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### Author:  [@sirtet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sirtet)
#### Post date: [1월 19, 2017, 9:43오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-animated-gif-inserts-as-static-gif/56013/2 "2017-01-19T09:43:43Z")
That’s the drag-drop result… (as new user i was allowed only to paste one image… is that restriction really necessary?)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [1월 19, 2017, 3:59오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-animated-gif-inserts-as-static-gif/56013/3 "2017-01-19T15:59:07Z")
Sorry, I don’t understand what you are asking? It looks like it is working fine.
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### Author:  [@sirtet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sirtet)
#### Post date: [1월 19, 2017, 5:02오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-animated-gif-inserts-as-static-gif/56013/4 "2017-01-19T17:02:07Z")
Right, sorry. The initial post was better, but then i had to rewrite it to two posts (and did so only poorly), as i could post only one image per post, a restriction for new users…
I’m Reporting a bug:
Inserting an animated gif via copy-paste (copying the image to the clipboard with eg. chrome’s “copy image”)
results in a static gif, as seen in the first post.
For reference, i added the same gif in the 2nd post (drag’n drop from windows explorer), and now that’s animated.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [1월 19, 2017, 5:17오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-animated-gif-inserts-as-static-gif/56013/5 "2017-01-19T17:17:21Z")
I believe copy paste has always worked that way.
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### Author:  [@sirtet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sirtet)
#### Post date: [1월 19, 2017, 6:20오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-animated-gif-inserts-as-static-gif/56013/6 "2017-01-19T18:20:37Z")
Well, i’m not saying it’s a NEW bug, just that it IS one, considered that there are other places where such pasting works.
So, there seem to be ways to get around that problem.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [1월 19, 2017, 7:51오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-animated-gif-inserts-as-static-gif/56013/7 "2017-01-19T19:51:08Z")
As I understand it, it is _not_ a bug.
It has more to do with the way browsers deal with “clipboard”.
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### Author:  [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)
#### Post date: [1월 19, 2017, 8:46오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-animated-gif-inserts-as-static-gif/56013/8 "2017-01-19T20:46:11Z")
That could still be a bug, but a _browser_ one.
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### Author:  [@sirtet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sirtet)
#### Post date: [1월 19, 2017, 8:52오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-animated-gif-inserts-as-static-gif/56013/9 "2017-01-19T20:52:32Z")
Off course it’s a Bug if i Insert a but b arrives.
Who’s to blame is another Thing.
Working around Browser Bugs and quirks is daily Business for web Software.
And as i wrote, XenForo found a way around it.
And it’d be nice if discourse could do it too, it’s otherwise awesome.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [1월 19, 2017, 8:55오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-animated-gif-inserts-as-static-gif/56013/10 "2017-01-19T20:55:27Z")
If someone wants to take it as a community PR, that’s fine.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [3월 16, 2022, 5:39오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-animated-gif-inserts-as-static-gif/56013/11 "2022-03-16T17:39:33Z")
[Allow pasting of GIFs into composer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-pasting-of-gifs-into-composer/218720?u=falco%EC%97%90%EC%84%9C) 추적 중
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [3월 16, 2022, 5:39오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-animated-gif-inserts-as-static-gif/56013/12 "2022-03-16T17:39:37Z")