Playing a sound file with a JavaScript function

Death Slaught

This code was written by acoder serveral (139) days ago. So I decided to post it.

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function play() {

embed = document.createElement("embed");

embed.setAttribute("src", "soundfile.wav");

embed.setAttribute("hidden", true);

embed.setAttribute("autostart", true);

document.body.appendChild(embed);

}

^_^ Thanks, Death

gits

to make it a little bit more useful we should slightly adapt it to accept the file to play as a parameter, and strictly seen we should declare the variable embed :)

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function play(file) {

    var embed = document.createElement("embed");
 
    embed.setAttribute('src', file);

    embed.setAttribute('hidden', true);

    embed.setAttribute('autostart', true);
 
    document.body.appendChild(embed);

}

so now we could simply call:

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onclick="play('file.wav');"

on any element we want ...

kind regards

acoder

I probably posted that from somewhere - no need to attribute it to me.

Besides the points made above, embed is actually non-standard, but sometimes required for backwards compatibility. The element to use now is object.

gits

Quote:

Originally Posted by acoder

I probably posted that from somewhere - no need to attribute it to me.

Besides the points made above, embed is actually non-standard, but sometimes required for backwards compatibility. The element to use now is object.

so we could adapt it further :)

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function play(file, obj) {

    if (typeof obj == 'undefined') {

        obj = 'object';

    }
 
    var node = document.createElement(obj);
 
    node.setAttribute('src', file);

    node.setAttribute('hidden', true);

    node.setAttribute('autostart', true);
 
    document.body.appendChild(node);

}

now we could call:

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onclick="play('file.wav');"

that creates the 'object' as default or:

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onclick="play('file.wav', 'object');"

or even with 'embed' instead of 'object' in case we need to do that ;)

kind regards

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