Play sound file when image is clicked

Question

I am not a native HTML programmer, so please don't jump all over me about this simple question.

I have an image that, I am displaying using the following code:

 <img name="track1" src="images/track1.png" width="180" height="180" border="0" id="track1" alt="" />

I want a sound file to be played when that image is clicked. I can make the image a button, but that is messing up the layout of the page for some reason.

I am okay with using any player, but the only thing is that I do not want to display an intrusive player. I just want the user to press the image and hear the music. If he presses another image, the current music needs to stop playing, and a different sound must be played.

Please help! Thanks!

Answer 1

First you have to use jQuery. You may create some <div> in your page having some id, for example;

<div id="wrap">&nbsp;</div>.

Then, in your JavaScript, when you want to play the file, just add

$('#wrap').append('<embed id="embed_player" src="audio.wav" autostart="true" hidden="true"></embed>');

the whole code looks something like;

<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.7.1.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready( function() {
$('#track1').click(function(){
   $('#wrap').append('<embed id="embed_player" src="audio.wav" autostart="true" hidden="true"></embed>');
});
});
</script>
<img name="track1" src="images/track1.png" width="180" height="180" border="0" id="track1" alt="" />
<div id="wrap">&nbsp;</div>

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

This answer by @klaustopher helped me. He wrote:

HTML5 has the new -Tag that can be used to play sound. It even has a pretty simple JavaScript Interface:

  <audio id="sound1" src="yoursound.mp3" preload="auto"></audio>
  <button onclick="document.getElementById('sound1').play();">Play
  it</button>

Here's how I implemented his advice so that clicking on the Font Awesome icon "fa-volume-up" (located on the Web page after "mule.") results in "donkey2.mp3" sound playing (note: mp3 doesn't play in all browsers):

<p>In short, you're treated like a whole person, instead of a rented mule. 
<audio id="sound1" src="assets/donkey2.mp3" preload="auto"></audio>
<a class="icon fa-volume-up" onclick="document.getElementById('sound1').play();"></a></p>