diff --git a/content/get-started/writing-on-github/getting-started-with-writing-and-formatting-on-github/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax.md b/content/get-started/writing-on-github/getting-started-with-writing-and-formatting-on-github/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax.md
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@@ -163,6 +163,23 @@ For example, the following code displays a sun image for light themes and a moon
The old method of specifying images based on the theme, by using a fragment appended to the URL (`#gh-dark-mode-only` or `#gh-light-mode-only`), is deprecated and will be removed in favor of the new method described above.
{% endif %}
+### Animated images with Graphic Interchange Format (or GIFs)
+
+You can display an animated image by using the HTML `![]()
` element or in combination with the `` for using with themes. These animated images supports embedding GIFs into your issues, pull requests, discussions, comments and `.md` files.
+
+For example, the following code displays an animated octo-cat with `![]()
` element:
+
+```HTML
+
+```
+
+
+
+
+{% tip %}
+
+**Tip:** When you want to display a GIF which is in GitHub, you should use GitHub raw URL links instead of GitHub content URL links.
+
## Lists
You can make an unordered list by preceding one or more lines of text with - or *.