Animated gif plays once but can't be seen from begining again, why?

[palos_verdesm59487140]

Hey folks. It is silly but I do not know why my animated gif inserted into page plays once (it was created to play once) but when call again through swap images or show / hide layers do not play from beginning. It shows just end. I need to refresh page. Manually through browser or "Refresh" head tag with automatic action delayed in seconds. Is there any way to make it through click / mouse over behavior?

Please help.

Janusz

[Paul-M]

Hi,

Can you post the code please

[Jon Fritz · Accepted solution]

The reason it's not working for you is because your animated gif is very likely only being loaded to your page one time. Since it's only designed to play once after loading, you see the last frame on subsequent rollovers. I've gotten around this in the past by appending the animated .gif src with a ? and random number using javascript. This tricks the browser into reloading the image every time it's hovered (because the file name is different every time).

The below is for a <div> background...

CSS:

#offState {

     background-image:url(off-state.jpg);

}

HTML:

<div id="offState" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundImage = 'url(animated.gif?' + Math.random() + ')';" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundImage = 'url(off-state.jpg)';">

</div>