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JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

You're reading from   JavaScript from Beginner to Professional Learn JavaScript quickly by building fun, interactive, and dynamic web apps, games, and pages

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562523
Length 546 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with JavaScript FREE CHAPTER 2. JavaScript Essentials 3. JavaScript Multiple Values 4. Logic Statements 5. Loops 6. Functions 7. Classes 8. Built-In JavaScript Methods 9. The Document Object Model 10. Dynamic Element Manipulation Using the DOM 11. Interactive Content and Event Listeners 12. Intermediate JavaScript 13. Concurrency 14. HTML5, Canvas, and JavaScript 15. Next Steps 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index
Appendix – Practice Exercise, Project, and Self-Check Quiz Answers

Media on the page

There are special elements for media on the page. We are going to show you how to add audio and video and how to embed YouTube on a webpage.

Adding an audio player to a page is very simple:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <body>
    <audio controls>
      <source src="sound.ogg" type="audio/ogg">
      <source src="sound.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
    </audio>
  </body>
</html>

You specify the controls attribute if you want the user to be able to control pause and play and the volume. If you want it to start automatically, you'll have to add the attribute autoplay. With the source element, you specify the audio files that can be played. The browser will choose only one and will choose the first one (from top to bottom) that it supports.

Adding a video to a webpage is very similar to adding audio. Here's how to do it:

<video width="1024"...
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