Summary
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 {{HTMLElement("audio")}} element.
Attributes
- {{htmlattrdef("balance")}}
- This attribute defines a number between -10,000 and +10,000 that determines how the volume will be divided between the speakers.
- {{htmlattrdef("loop")}}
- This attribute indicates the number of times a sound is to be played and either has a numeric value or the keyword infinite.
- {{htmlattrdef("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.
- {{htmlattrdef("volume")}}
- This attribute defines a number between -10,000 and 0 that determines the loudness of a page's background sound.
Example
<bgsound src="sound1.mid"> <bgsound src="sound2.au" loop="infinite">
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.
Browser compatibility
{{CompatibilityTable}}
Feature | Chrome | Firefox (Gecko) | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Basic support | {{CompatUnknown}} | {{CompatNo}} [1] | {{CompatVersionUnknown}} | {{CompatUnknown}} | {{CompatUnknown}} |
Feature | Android | Firefox Mobile (Gecko) | IE Mobile | Opera Mobile | Safari Mobile |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Basic support | {{CompatUnknown}} | {{CompatNo}} [1] | {{CompatUnknown}} | {{CompatUnknown}} | {{CompatUnknown}} |
[1] Up to Firefox 22, even if not supporting this element, Gecko was associating it an {{domxref("HTMLSpanElement")}}. This was fixed then and now the associated element is an {{HTMLUnknownElement")}} as required by the specification.
See also
- The {{htmlelement("audio")}}, which is the standard element to embed audio in a document.