HTML5: Your visual blueprint™ for designing rich web pages and applications

PLAY SOUND WITH THE HTML5 AUDIO ELEMENT

You can play sound files in HTML5 just as you can movie files. Because the structure and implementation of <audio> and <video> are so close together, collectively they are referred to as the media elements. There are some attributes found in <video> that do not apply to <audio>, such as height, width, and poster, but everything else, including ensuring that you have the proper encoding of your sound files for each web browser, is basically the same idea:

<audio controls preload>
   <source src='music.mp3' type='audio/mpeg'>
   <source src='music.ogg' type='audio/ogg;
  codecs="vorbis"'>
   Insert fallback content here.
</audio>

Additional Boolean attributes that you can specify include controls, for the browser ...