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Name

Audio — an HTML <audio> element

Inherits from

Node, Element, MediaElement

Synopsis

An Audio object represents an HTML <audio> element. Except for its constructor, an Audio object has no properties, methods or event handlers other than those inherited from MediaElement.

Constructor

new Audio([string src])

This constructor creates a new <audio> element with a preload attribute set to “auto”. If the src argument is specified, it is used as the value of the src attribute.

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