HTML Hyper Text Markup Language: How To Make Background Music Work For Netscape And IE

Netscape allows background sounds through use of the

tag.
MSIE, Mosaic, and several other browsers use the tag.

You might at this point ask why you can\'t just use both and let each interpret its preferred tag. The problem is that MSIE sometimes interprets the tag in addition to (depending on the particular installation) resulting in conflict and ugly error messages.

We use Java Script to get over this!
Place this tag anywhere in within the BODY of your HTML code.



<br /> <BGSOUND SRC="my-music.mid"> <br />
Of course, browsers that have scripting turned off but don\'t understand will have no sound at all.