Controlling GIF Animations with Jquery?

Question

Is this possible? I did some google search but don't seem to find anything. What I want would be kind of like a stop/play function to a gif image.

Would be awesome.

Answer 1

No. Gifs are played by the browser. There is nothing you can do about it.

The only thing you can do is replace the image with a placeholder. But that will not stop and start the gif at specific locations of the animation, right when you click/toggle.

Answer 2

https://stackoverflow.com/a/6017468/873792

Unfortunately, the DOM doesn't expose individual frames of a GIF, so this is done by downloading the GIF (with XMLHttpRequest), parsing it, and drawing it on a canvas.