Article ID: 194096 - Last Review: June 27, 2007 - Revision: 1.1

FP98: How to Play Background Sound in Netscape Navigator

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For a Microsoft FrontPage 97 and earlier version of this article, see 183785  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/183785/EN-US/ ) .

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SUMMARY

When you add a background sound to a Web page in FrontPage Editor, FrontPage inserts the <bgsound> tag before the </head> tag. Netscape Navigator ignores the <bgsound> tag. To play a sound in Netscape Navigator, you can use the <embed> tag.

This article describes how to insert a background sound that plays when you load an HTML page in a Netscape browser.
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To play a background sound in Netscape Navigator, follow these steps:
  1. Open your page in FrontPage Editor.
  2. On the Insert menu, click FrontPage Component.
  3. From the Select A Component list, click Insert HTML and then click OK.
  4. In the HTML Markup dialog box, type the following HTML code: 
          <embed src="soundfile.wav" hidden="true" align="baseline" border="0"
       width="128" height="128" autostart="true" autoplay="true">
    where soundfile.wav is the name of the background sound file you want to use. You can use a .wav, .mid. or .au file. A plug-in may be needed to play midi files.
  5. Click OK.
  6. On the File menu, click Save.
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HIDDEN, AUTOSTART, and LOOP Attributes

The HIDDEN, AUTOSTART and LOOP attributes of the EMBED tag are described as follows: 
   HIDDEN="true|false"      Setting this attribute specifies whether
                            the plug-in is visible. Some plug-ins
                            (like the LiveAudio plug-in) can control the
                            embedded data type without being visible. The
                            default value is false, meaning that the
                            plug-in control will be displayed.

   AUTOSTART="true|false"   Setting this attribute specifies whether
                            the plug-in will start automatically.
                            Some plug-ins (like the LiveAudio plug-in)
                            can control the embedded data type without
                            user intervention. The default value is
                            false, meaning that the plug-in will not
                            function until the control is clicked.

   LOOP="true|false"        Setting this attribute specifies whether
                            the plug-in plays in a infinite loop. The
                            default value is false, meaning that the
                            plug-in will play once.
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APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft FrontPage 98 Standard Edition
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