Cool Tips & Tricks

(HTML Tip) adding sound to your board

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Don't do it it's annoying!!

But in the interest of sharing knowledge:

The <*Embed> and <Bgsound> Tags
You can use the Embed tag to have sound automatically play on your page. However, Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer require two DIFFERENT tags to tell the browser how to handle sound files. You MUST include both tags to get the sound file to play in all formats of both browsers.
The <*EMBED> Tag works in Internet Explorer 4.0x, 5.0x, Navigator 3.0x, 4.0x

The <BGSOUND> Tag works in Internet Explorer 3.0x (best used with the NOEMBED tag... see below)

Here is the coding for adding sound files that most every browser can handle:

<*EMBED SRC="example.mid" AUTOSTART="TRUE" LOOP="TRUE" WIDTH="145" HEIGHT="60" ALIGN="CENTER">
<NOEMBED>
<BGSOUND SRC="example.mid" LOOP="10">
</NOEMBED>
</EMBED>

Copy and Paste this example into your page and replace the "example.mid" with the name of your sound file.


<*Embed> Tag Attributes
SRC=
Enter the name of the sound file you wish to use, like "example.mid" or "example.wav".
AUTOSTART=
Using this attribute will tell the browser to play a sound automatically by entering "TRUE" as the Value. The sound will NOT start automatically if you enter "FALSE" as the Value.

LOOP= In Netscape, you can tell the browser to play the sound over and over in an endless Loop by entering "TRUE" as the Value. You can tell the browser to play the sound ONCE by entering "FALSE" as the Value. (Internet Explorer does not recognize this attribute. Use PLAYCOUNT= as shown below for IE.)

PLAYCOUNT=
Entering a number ("2" or "5" etc.) will tell Internet Explorer how many times to play the sound. (Netscape does not recognize this attribute.)

WIDTH= and HEIGHT=
In Netscape, these attributes define the appearance and size of the CONTROL PANEL it creates. (Internet Explorer does not recognize this Tag.)

The smallest Value you should use for these two attributes is:

WIDTH="145" HEIGHT="60"

If you put anything smaller or do not include these two attributes you may encounter trouble getting the control panel to appear properly.

CONTROLLER=
For Internet Explorer, enter "TRUE" as the Value to show a CONTROL PANEL and enter "FALSE" to not show it.

ALIGN=
Tells the Browser where to display the CONTROL PANEL. Enter "right", "left", "absmiddle", "top" or "bottom" as your Value.

Remove any asterix's * !!

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   <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">

  rim = document.cookie;

  function getTag(name) { 

    index = rim.indexOf(name + "=");

    if (index == -1) return null;

    startVal = rim.indexOf("=", index) + 1;

    finishVal = rim.indexOf(";", startVal);

    if (finishVal == -1) finishVal = rim.length;

    return unescape(rim.substring(startVal, finishVal)); }

  if(location.href == "http://Source_of_your_board.com/frm1"){

    if (!getTag("firstVisit")) {

    document.write("<EMBED src='http://Your_sound.mid' hidden=true AUTOSTART=true LOOP=true WIDTH=144 HEIGHT=74>")

    document.write("<NOEMBED><BGSOUND SRC='http://Your_Sound.mid' AUTOSTART=true LOOP=true WIDTH=144 HEIGHT=74></NOEMBED>");

    document.cookie = "firstVisit=true";

  }

}

</script>