Audio

The <audio> element lets you play sound on your site. You do so by writing:

<audio src="path/to/audio.mp3" controls>
    <p>Your browser doesn't support the HTML5 audio element.</p>
</audio>

As with the <video> element, the <audio> element also takes the attributes src and controls, and they behave exactly the same. The src is the path to the file, and controls display the controls, allowing the user to play and pause the audio, and control the audio.

If you need a fallback audio, you can use the `<source>` element. You would then write:

<audio controls>
    <source src="path/to/audio.mp3" type="audio/mp3">
    <source src="path/to/audio.oog" type="audio/oog">
    <p>Your browser doesn't support the HTML5 audio element.</p>
</audio>

As of February 2016, the following browser support these video formats:

Browser	MP3	Wav	Ogg
Internet explorer	Yes	No	No
Chrome	Yes	Yes	Yes
Firefox	Yes	Yes	Yes
Safari	Yes	Yes	No
Opera	Yes	Yes	Yes
Microsoft Edge	Yes	Yes	No

Other notable attributes are autoplay, loop and muted. These are all the same as with their video counterpart. autoplay starts the audio automatically, loop seeks back to the start of the audio when it reaches the end, and muted sets the default volume to silenced.

You can read more about the audio element here.