FP: How to Play Background Sound in Netscape Navigator (183785)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft FrontPage 97 for Windows with Bonus Pack
  • Microsoft FrontPage for Windows 1.1
  • Microsoft FrontPage for the Macintosh 1.0
This article was previously published under Q183785

For a Microsoft FrontPage 98 version of this article, see 194096.
For a Microsoft FrontPage 2000 version of this article, see 193168.

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.

MORE INFORMATION

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FrontPage 97 and FrontPage for the Macintosh

  1. Open your page in FrontPage Editor.
  2. On the View menu, click HTML.
  3. Place the insertion point after the <body> tag and 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.
  4. Click OK.
  5. On the File menu, click Save.

FrontPage 1.1

  1. Open your page in FrontPage Editor.
  2. On the Insert menu, click Bot.
  3. In the Select A Component list, click HTML Markup 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.
  5. Click Close.
  6. On the File menu, click Save.

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 an infinite loop. The
                             default value is false, meaning that the
                             plug-in will play once.
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Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:6/18/2005
Keywords:kbhowto KB183785
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