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<bgsound>: The Background Sound element |
Web/HTML/Element/bgsound |
html-element |
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html.elements.bgsound |
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The <bgsound> HTML element is deprecated. It sets up a sound file to play in the background while the page is used; use {{HTMLElement("audio")}} instead.
Warning: Do not use this! In order to embed audio in a Web page, you should be using the {{HTMLElement("audio")}} element.
- {{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.
<bgsound src="sound1.mid"></bgsound>
<bgsound src="sound2.au" loop="infinite"></bgsound>Historically, the {{HTMLElement("embed")}} element could be used with audio player plug-ins to play audio in the background in most browsers. However, even this is no longer appropriate, and you should use <audio> instead, since it's more capable, more compatible, and doesn't require plug-ins.
You can write <bgsound> as a self-closing tag (<bgsound />); however, since this element is non-standard, doing so will still not validate.
{{Specifications}}
{{Compat}}
- The {{htmlelement("audio")}}, which is the standard element to embed audio in a document.