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.

[CODE=javascript]
function play() {
embed = document.create Element("embed" );
embed.setAttrib ute("src", "soundfile.wav" );
embed.setAttrib ute("hidden", true);
embed.setAttrib ute("autostart" , true);
document.body.a ppendChild(embe d);
}

[/CODE]

^_^ 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 :)

[CODE=javascript]
function play(file) {
var embed = document.create Element("embed" );

embed.setAttrib ute('src', file);
embed.setAttrib ute('hidden', true);
embed.setAttrib ute('autostart' , true);

document.body.a ppendChild(embe d);
}
[/code]
so now we could simply call:

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]

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 :)

[CODE=javascript]
function play(file, obj) {
if (typeof obj == 'undefined') {
obj = 'object';
}

var node = document.create Element(obj);

node.setAttribu te('src', file);
node.setAttribu te('hidden', true);
node.setAttribu te('autostart', true);

document.body.a ppendChild(node );
}
[/code]
now we could call:

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

that creates the 'object' as default or:

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

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

kind regards