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.
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