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It may have one of the following values:. The default value is different for each browser. The spec advises it to be set to metadata. The URL of the audio to embed. This is subject to HTTP access controls. We offer a substantive and thorough guide to media file types and the audio codecs that can be used within them. Also available is a guide to the codecs supported for video.

The default controls have a display value of inline by default, and it is often a good idea set the value to block to improve control over positioning and layout, unless you want it to sit within a text block or similar. You can style the default controls with properties that affect the block as a single unit, so for example you can give it a border and border-radius , padding , margin , etc. You can't however style the individual components inside the audio player e. To get a consistent look and feel across browsers, you'll need to create custom controls; these can be marked up and styled in whatever way you want, and then JavaScript can be used along with the HTMLMediaElement API to wire up their functionality.

An AudioTrackList containing all of the media element's audio tracks. You can add a listener for addtrack to this object to be alerted when new audio tracks are added to the element. Add an addtrack listener to this VideoTrackList object to be informed when video tracks are added to the element.

Add an addtrack event listener to this TextTrackList to be notified when new text tracks are added to the element. This code watches for audio tracks to be added to and removed from the element, and calls a hypothetical function on a track editor to register and remove the track from the editor's list of available tracks.

You can also use addEventListener to listen for the addtrack and removetrack events. It will autoplay due to the autoplay attribute—if the page has permission to do so—and also includes fallback content. For details on when autoplay works, how to get permission to use autoplay, and how and when it's appropriate to use autoplay, see our autoplay guide.

It is always useful to include the file's MIME type inside the type attribute, as the browser is able to instantly tell if it can play that file, and not waste time on it if not. The browser tries to load the first source element Opus if it is able to play it; if not it falls back to the second Vorbis and finally back to MP Audio with spoken dialog should provide both captions and transcripts that accurately describe its content.

The autostart can be set to true or false as with an embedded sound. Sound with a Simple Link Of course, you can also add sound with a simple link. Depending on how the user's browser is configured, clicking the link will either open the sound file in a player or give the user the option of opening it or saving it.

It's also available to download and save on their computer too, via the right-click menu. If you are using a large file put it at the end of your code so there's less chance it will adversely affect the page's download time. A lot of people surf from work, and a lot of people surf with their own listening preferences. Automatically playing sound files can give them away at work or interfere with their own listening choice. For these reasons it's best not to start your sound file automatically.

Instead, offer them the control panel and let them decide if they want to play it or not. Failure to do so will mean you'll drive a good percentage of people away as soon as the unwanted sound starts playing. Almost a Newsletter Changing list hosts. Will post a new subscribe form shortly. Did you know The member's site has about standards compliant HTML and CSS tutorials, 31 handy reference charts, reprintable content, web graphics, exclusive fonts, free software, free ebooks and more?

All this for less than 9 cents a day! To start an audio file automatically, use the autoplay attribute:.

Note: Chromium browsers do not allow autoplay in most cases. However, muted autoplay is always allowed. Add muted after autoplay to let your audio file start playing automatically but muted :. The browser support for the different formats is:. We just launched W3Schools videos.