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I've had a dig into it, and it turns out this is a DDG-specific problem. When you drag the image from DDG, you are actually dragging the parent element, which has two children - the gif, and a hidden placeholder image of the first frame. I presume the placeholder exists so that it can be displayed while the gif is loading in DDG.

 

When you submit your post, the HTML is sanitised, which includes making invisible elements visible. This means that the invisible placeholder image becomes visible, so you end up with duplicates.

 

The best solution is to right click on "View file" in DDG and copy the link location, then paste that into the forum and let it embed.

 

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so when I drag a gif into a post on the forum it will put the gif in and look normal. But then when I submit the post and it posts on to the topic/status it has the first frame of the gif as a image and next to that the gif.

 

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11 minutes ago, will4623 said:

so when I drag a gif into a post on the forum it will put the gif in and look normal. But then when I submit the post and it posts on to the topic/status it has the first frame of the gif as a image and next to that the gif.

 

from a link or files ?

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I click & dragged my pfp from my profile. works on chrome here xD 

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1 minute ago, givingtnt said:

I click & dragged my pfp from my profile. works on chrome here xD 

It happens on Fire Fox when dragging a gif from a duckduckgo search.

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?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.XeF8b4Li2S_HsFzNDdadcwHaEJ%26pid%3DApi&f=1FernandoAndreos1's Profile - MyAnimeList.net
Testing from FF.
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Oh... that's... weird.

Didn't happen til I refreshed the page.

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I've had a dig into it, and it turns out this is a DDG-specific problem. When you drag the image from DDG, you are actually dragging the parent element, which has two children - the gif, and a hidden placeholder image of the first frame. I presume the placeholder exists so that it can be displayed while the gif is loading in DDG.

 

When you submit your post, the HTML is sanitised, which includes making invisible elements visible. This means that the invisible placeholder image becomes visible, so you end up with duplicates.

 

The best solution is to right click on "View file" in DDG and copy the link location, then paste that into the forum and let it embed.

 

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