Recognised as Media type
image/gif
- image/gif
- image
- Binary
image/gif is the media type for gif image, up to 256 colours, animatable. It is normally carried by .gif files. The top-level type is "image".
Media type
Full typeimage/gif
Top-level typeimage
Subtypegif
DescriptionGIF image, up to 256 colours, animatable
Text or binaryBinarynot human-readable
Using it
File extensions.gif
Content-Type headerContent-Type: image/gif
Accept headerAccept: image/gif
Needs charsetNo
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