Animated Background Image

Is this possible?

[aaronjf]

Is it possible to use an animated gif as a background image and retain the animation?

[korkus2000]

Unfortunetly yes.

[Nick_W]

>>Unfortunetly yes

Classic, made me laugh! ;)

Does that work doing it the CSS way korkus?

Nick

[korkus2000]

body
{
background-image: url(animated.gif);
}

:( yep

[aaronjf]

Can it be done without using CSS

[tedster]

Opera does not support animation in background images.

I agree that it's almost never a good idea to try anyway, but I have a couple sites where hover brings in a subtly animated background image on the anchor element. That can be rather effective without being troublesome, IMO. That's why I was disappointed with the lack of support in Opera.

But all things considered, it's probably a wise move on their part.

Can it be done without using CSS

Sure - just plug in the animated gif wherever you would normally put the background image - no special assembly required.

[aaronjf]

Ah... I tried that first. Apparently Safari does not support animated gif backgrounds - shows image as stationary.

Just trying to animate a cell. Not a whole page, and the image is at 5% trans so it is subtile.