Adding sound or music to web pages - JavaScript tip

Introducing music on your personal web site adds flavor. This tip explains how sound or music can be played when a visitor passes the mouse pointer over an image.

Move your mouse over the keys below to play Brahms Waltz #3 - please make sure that the speakers are on.
Note: This tip will work only in Internet Explorer.

The code is simple and has to be included in the body section of your HTML document.

<BGSOUND SRC="#" ID="brahms" AUTOSTART="TRUE">

<IMG SRC="keys.gif" WIDTH="220" HEIGHT="126" BORDER="0"
onmouseover="document.all.brahms.src='brahms.mid'">

You can also play sounds when the mouse cursor passes over links. For this we use the anchor tag and the onmouseover JavaScript event handler function.

<BGSOUND SRC="#" ID="beep" AUTOSTART="TRUE">
<A HREF="some_page.html" 
onmouseover="document.all.beep.src='beep.wav'">
Hotspot</A>