HTML Elements and Attributes for Audio Files

Guest Author - Diane Cipollo

Below is a list of the most commonly used^*** html element tags that control an audio file on the webpage.

Note: Some attributes listed below have been depreciated in favor of Cascading Style Sheets.

Elements and Attributes for Audio Files
Element	Opening Tag	Attributes	Closing Tag	Description
bgsound	<bgsound>	src="location" loop="#"	None	Embeds audio file on webpage (Internet Explorer) src - location of file loop - number of times file will play
embed	<embed>	src="location" width="x" height="x" hidden="?" loop="#"	None	Embeds audio file on webpage src - location of file width - width of display panel in pixels height - height of display panel in pixels hidden - set to true to make panel invisible, the default is false loop - number of times file will play

^***A complete list of html element tags can be found at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/index/elements.html
^**Color can be set using color names (red, black, etc) or RGB color codes or hexidecimal color codes.

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