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. |
Browser Compatibility
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.
See Also
- The
<audio>
, which is the standard element to embed audio in a document.
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