Disabling GIF animation in HTML

Question

Is there any way, in HTML, to include an animated GIF in an <img> tag, but automatically tell the GIF to not animate? I realize that the user can stop animation by pressing ESC or clicking Stop, but I want the GIFs not to animate at all.

I only want to do this on one specific page, and making separate non-animated versions of the (1500+) GIFs is not feasible. I simply want the GIFs to not animate.

Answer 1

You could use Giffer.

Just include the library in your page:

<script type="text/javascript" src="gifffer.min.js"></script> 

Instead of setting src attribute on your image use data-gifffer.

<img data-gifffer="image.gif" /> 

At the end, call Gifffer() whenever you want. For example:

window.onload = function() {     Gifffer(); } 

If you don't want the GIF to move at all you can always edit the .js file to remove the play button.

Answer 2

Not with plain HTML but using PHP with imagecreatefromgif might help you