audio – audio stream (NEW)

Permitted contents #

Transparent, with the following specific structure:

a src attribute, or one or more source elements followed by zero or more track elements, followed by flow content

or

a src attribute, or one or more source elements followed by zero or more track elements, followed by phrasing content

Any attributes permitted globally.

autoplay = "autoplay" or "" (empty string) or empty #

Instructs the UA to automatically begin playback of the audio stream as soon as it can do so without stopping.

preload = "none" or "metadata" or "auto" or "" (empty string) or empty #

Represents a hint to the UA about whether optimistic downloading of the audio stream itself or its metadata is considered worthwhile.

"none": Hints to the UA that the user is not expected to need the audio stream, or that minimizing unnecessary traffic is desirable.
"metadata": Hints to the UA that the user is not expected to need the audio stream, but that fetching its metadata (duration and so on) is desirable.
"auto": Hints to the UA that optimistically downloading the entire audio stream is considered desirable.

Specifying the empty string is equivalent to specifying the value "auto".

controls = "controls" or "" (empty string) or empty #

Instructs the UA to expose a user interface for controlling playback of the audio stream.

loop = "loop" or "" (empty string) or empty #

Instructs the UA to seek back to the start of the audio stream upon reaching the end.

The URL for the audio stream.

The interactive element audio with the attribute controls must not appear as a descendant of the a element.
The interactive element audio with the attribute controls must not appear as a descendant of the button element.

An audio element must have both a start tag and an end tag.

any element that can contain phrasing elements, any element that can contain flow elements

[NamedConstructor=Audio(),
 NamedConstructor=Audio(in DOMString src)]
interface HTMLAudioElement : HTMLMediaElement {};