GIF saves only as image file

@leol96403783 , I don't know what happened with your prior posts but we apparently cross-posted.  Since the original response I saw showed that you had marked your "no, it doesn't" post as correct, I unmarked it.  Strangely, my post which added to Jeff's response appears with an earlier time than your amended posts but is later in the order of the discussion.

Replies are only screened for obscenities etc.

I had previously thought that the only limitation for the trial version of Elements was that a watermark appeared on videos.  If your experience is the norm, then I suppose somehow there is a limitation on animated gifs which also use the video player in the Organizer.  But this doesn't make much sense to me since many of the recently added features of Elements include animated gif creations.

. . . and are you able to preview the animation in the Save for Web dialog? 

Your screenshot shows that all layers are part of the animated .gif.    I think Jeff has probably hit the nail on the head in that you are probably not viewing the animated gif with a program or app that displays it correctly.  Try right-clicking on the created .gif file and use the Open With . . . command to open the file in a web browser.  Also, if you save an animated gif file in the Organizer, it should look like this:

Double-click on the file and the video player will open and show the animation.  (But the animation will not loop.)

Photoshop elements Save for Web always says Images Only no matter whether it's an animated Gif or a Jpg file.

After you save the animated Gif, what web browser or program are you using to view the Gif?

Can you post the animated Gif here on the forum so we can try it?

Use File>Save for Web to animate to gif.

As far as I know, the only way to save an animated gif in Elements (other than those that are generated by the progam) is to use the File>Save for Web option. 

Once you set the file format to GIF (at the top of the dialog) pay attention to

1. Checking the animate box
2. Looping Forever (if you want a continuous loop) and
3. Changing the Frame Delay.

Added:  I should note that this feature has been around almost unchanged since at least version 4 of Elements.  Since we didn't have a fast internet back then, the size limitations for animated gifs are somewhat limited.  If you run into a file too big error message, you may have to reduce the size of the image or reduce the number of layers (but 9 shouldn't be a problem).  IMO, the feature needs to be updated, since there is no problem using the animated gif creation features of Elements to create large size files with over a hundred layers.