HTML: Audio Tag

Audio Tag

Here is a example of embeded audio.

<audio src="i/s/test.m4a" controls></audio>

Here is what your browser shows.

HTML5 Audio Tag Attributes

Following are the most useful optional attributes.

preload

auto, metadata, none. The default is auto, meaning browser decides.

controls

Does not take any value

autoplay

Does not take any value

loop

Does not take any value

Note that the attributes {controls, autoplay, loop} do not take any value. Their existence or non-existence defines the behavior. It is incorrect to add a ="true" or ="false" in them. This type of attributes is called “boolean attributes”.

Test Your Browser

Here is different audio formats, using audio tag.

Audio Formats Browser Support

midi file is not supported by any browser, as of 2018-11-14.