How to play a GIF on click (like 9GaG.com) with wordpress?

Question

I need to implement this \"gif player\" in a wordpress site, because gif pages are up to 6mb, so performance is really crappy

I´ve read this Onclick play GIF image with

Answer 1

If you don't want to pause, you can easily REPLAY the gif file. Just trigger on the click and reload the gif into the image tag.

your_image= document.getElementById or however you want to grab the reference to the image. then set an event listener for the click.

Then your_image.src= your_image.src; And the gif will run again.