Provides a hint for generating a keyboard shortcut for the current element.
Provides a hint for generating a keyboard shortcut for the current element. This attribute consists of a space-separated list of characters. The browser should use the first one that exists on the computer keyboard layout.
A Boolean attribute; if specified, the audio will automatically begin being downloaded, even if not set to automatically play.
A Boolean attribute; if specified, the audio will automatically begin being downloaded, even if not set to automatically play. This continues until the media cache is full, or the entire audio file has been downloaded, whichever comes first. This should only be used when it is expected that the user will choose to play the audio; for example, if the user has navigated to a page using a "Play this audio" link. This attribute was removed in Gecko 2.0 (Firefox 4 / Thunderbird 3.3 / SeaMonkey 2.1) in favor of the
preload
attribute.
A Boolean attribute; if specified (even if the value is "false"!), the audio will automatically begin to play back as soon as it can do so without stopping to finish loading the data.
An attribute you can read to determine which time ranges of the media have been buffered.
An attribute you can read to determine which time ranges of the media have been buffered. This attribute contains a
TimeRanges
object.
Is a space-separated list of the classes of the element.
Is a space-separated list of the classes of the element. Classes allows CSS and JavaScript to select and access specific elements via the
class selectors or functions like the method
Document.getElementsByClassName()
.
Is an enumerated attribute indicating if the element should be editable by the user.
Is an enumerated attribute indicating if the element should be editable by the user. If so, the browser modifies its widget to allow editing. The attribute must take one of the following values:
true
or the empty string, which indicates that the element must be editable;false
, which indicates that the element must not be editable.Is the
id
of an
<menu>
to use as the contextual menu for this element.
If this attribute is present, the browser will offer controls to allow the user to control audio playback, including volume, seeking, and pause/resume playback.
Is an enumerated attribute indicating the directionality of the element's text.
Is an enumerated attribute indicating the directionality of the element's text. It can have the following values:
ltr
, which means left to right and is to be used for languages that are written from the left to the right (like English);rtl
, which means right to left and is to be used for languages that are written from the right to the left (like Arabic);auto
, which let the user agent decides. It uses a basic algorithm as it parses the characters inside the element until it finds a character with a strong directionality, then apply that directionality to the whole element.Is an enumerated attribute indicating whether the element can be dragged, using the Drag and Drop API.
Is an enumerated attribute indicating whether the element can be dragged, using the Drag and Drop API. It can have the following values:
true
, which indicates that the element may be draggedfalse
, which indicates that the element may not be dragged.Is an enumerated attribute indicating what types of content can be dropped on an element, using the Drag and Drop API.
Is an enumerated attribute indicating what types of content can be dropped on an element, using the Drag and Drop API. It can have the following values:
copy
, which indicates that dropping will create a copy of the element that was draggedmove
, which indicates that the element that was dragged will be moved to this new location.link
, will create a link to the dragged data.Is a Boolean attribute indicates that the element is not yet, or is no longer, relevant.
Is a Boolean attribute indicates that the element is not yet, or is no longer, relevant. For example, it can be used to hide elements of the page that can't be used until the login process has been completed. The browser won't render such elements. This attribute must not be used to hide content that could legitimately be shown.
Defines a unique identifier (ID) which must be unique in the whole document.
These attributes are related to the WHATWG HTML Microdata feature.
These attributes are related to the WHATWG HTML Microdata feature.
Participates in defining the language of the element, the language that non-editable elements are written in or the language that editable elements should be written in.
Participates in defining the language of the element, the language that non-editable elements are written in or the language that editable elements should be written in. The tag contains one single entry value in the format defines in the Tags for Identifying Languages (BCP47) IETF document. xml:lang has priority over it.
A Boolean attribute, when specified, will automatically seek back to the start upon reaching the end of the audio.
The offset, specified as the number of samples since the beginning of the audio stream, at which the audio is currently playing.
A Boolean attribute which indicates whether the audio will be initially silenced.
A Boolean attribute which indicates whether the audio will be initially silenced. Its default value is false, meaning that the audio will be played.
A
TimeRanges
object indicating all the ranges of the audio that have been played.
A
TimeRanges
object indicating all the ranges of the audio that have been played.
This enumerated attribute is intended to provide a hint to the browser about what the author thinks will lead to the best user experience.
This enumerated attribute is intended to provide a hint to the browser about what the author thinks will lead to the best user experience. It may have one of the following values:
none
: hints that either the author thinks that the user won't need to consult that audio or that the server wants to minimize its traffic; in others terms this hint indicates that the audio should not be cached;metadata
: hints that though the author thinks that the user won't need to consult that audio, fetching the metadata (e.g. length) is reasonable;auto
: hints that the user needs have priority; in others terms this hint indicated that, if needed, the whole audio could be downloaded, even if the user is not expected to use it;auto
value.If not set, its default value is browser-defined (i.e. each browser can choose its own default value), though the spec advises it to be set to metadata
.
Usage notes:
autoplay
attribute has precedence over this one as if one wants to automatically play a audio, the browser will obviously need to download it. Setting both the autoplay
and the preload
attributes is allowed by the specification.Is an enumerated attribute defines whether the element may be checked for spelling errors.
Is an enumerated attribute defines whether the element may be checked for spelling errors. It may have the following values:
true
, which indicates that the element should be, if possible, checked for spelling errors;false
, which indicates that the element should not be checked for spelling errors.The URL of the audio to embed.
The URL of the audio to embed. This is subject to
HTTP access controls. This is optional; you may instead use the
<source>
element within the audio block to specify the audio to embed.
Contains CSS styling declarations to be applied to the element.
Is an integer attribute indicates if the element can take input focus (is focusable), if it should participate to sequential keyboard navigation, and if so, at what position.
Is an integer attribute indicates if the element can take input focus (is focusable), if it should participate to sequential keyboard navigation, and if so, at what position. It can takes several values:
0
means that the element should be focusable and reachable via sequential keyboard navigation, but its relative order is defined by the platform convention;Contains a text representing advisory information related to the element it belongs to.
Contains a text representing advisory information related to the element it belongs to. Such information can typically, but not necessarily, be presented to the user as a tooltip.
Is an enumerated attribute that is used to specify whether an element's attribute values and the values of it
s
Text
node children are to be translated when the page is localized, or whether to leave them unchanged.
Is an enumerated attribute that is used to specify whether an element's attribute values and the values of it
s
Text
node children are to be translated when the page is localized, or whether to leave them unchanged. It can have the following values:
"yes"
, which indicates that the element will be translated."no
", which indicates that the element will not be translated.The playback volume of any audio portions, in the range 0.0 (silent) to 1.0 (loudest).
The HTML
<audio>
element is used to embed sound content in documents. It may contain several audio sources, represented using thesrc
attribute or the<source>
element; the browser will choose the most suitable one. Fallback content for browser not supporting the<audio>
element can be added too. You can use the Web Audio API to directly generate and manipulate audio streams from JavaScript code. See Web Audio API for details.