HTML - <bgsound>

The HTML Background Sound Element (<bgsound>) is an Internet Explorer element associating a background sound with a page.

Example

<bgsound src="sound1.mid">

<bgsound src="sound2.au" loop="infinite">

Description

The HTML Background Sound Element (<bgsound>) is an Internet Explorer element associating a background sound with a page.

Do not use this! In order to embed audio in a Web page, you should be using the <audio> element.

Attributes

Includes the Global Attributes.

Name	Version	Description
`balance`		This attribute defines a number between -10,000 and +10,000 that determines how the volume will be divided between the speakers.
`loop`		This attribute indicates the number of times a sound is to be played and either has a numeric value or the keyword infinite.
`src`		This attribute specifies the URL of the sound file to be played, which must be one of the following types: .wav, .au, or .mid.
`volume`		This attribute defines a number between -10,000 and 0 that determines the loudness of a page's background sound.

Feature	Chrome	Firefox (Gecko)	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari
Basic support	?	No support [1]	(Yes)	?	?

Feature	Android	Firefox Mobile (Gecko)	IE Mobile	Opera Mobile	Safari Mobile
Basic support	?	No support [1]	?	?	?

[1] Up to Firefox 22, even if not supporting this element, Gecko was associating it an HTMLSpanElement. This was fixed then and now the associated element is an HTMLUnknownElement as required by the specification.

Notes

Similar functionality can be achieved in some versions of Netscape using the <embed> tag to invoke an audio player.

You can write bgsound with a self-closing tag <bgsound />. However, since this element is not part of a standard, making it XHTML-like will not make it validate.

License

© 2016 Mozilla Contributors
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License v2.5 or later.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-us/docs/web/html/element/bgsound