Basic HTML help

Adding Music

This is a very easy thing to do and can really brighten up your webpage. There are several ways you can add music. It can play in the background, play once only, play continuously, or you can let the person viewing the webpage decide what they want to do. First you need to have your music file saved somewhere on the internet. Simply replace the text http://images.neopets.com/help/beep.wav with the URL of your music file. You can embed src files with the extensions of:

.mid

.midi

.wav

.mp3

.jpg

.jpeg

.gif

.bmp

.png

Creating a player
You can create a little music player on your page, this will allow the viewer to stop and start the music whenever they wish. What tags you use depends on if you want people to see it in Netscape or Internet Explorer (it may not work in other browsers such as Mozilla, Opera, etc). Netscape supports embed tags and IE supports bgsound tags. It is best to include both, that way it will always work.

This will create a player that looks something like this :

Continous Play
You can make your music play continually by adding the loop tag, these are slightly different in Netscape and IE. If you want your music to start playing as soon as someone loads the page, type autostart=true in the embed code. The following code would start your music automatically and play it constantly. Note: you many not wish to use this in your shop as it could annoy a lot of people :)

Background Music
If you want to give your webpage a more subtle appearance, you do not need to display the player. If you want to hide the player from your viewers, use the hidden=true tag like so: