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HTML HTML Video and Audio (Retired) Media Basics The Audio Element

Posted by ameshuffle
ameshuffle
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Code bug challenge on audio HTML

It keeps asking to add the src attribute when I already added it and it still gives incorrect answer.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>HTML Video and Audio</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="normalize.css">
    <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Nunito:400,300' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="main.css">
  </head>
  <body>

    <h1>HTML Video and Audio</h1>

    <div class="wrapper">

      <!-- Add your code below this line -->
      <audio>
<source src="http://treehouse-code-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/html-video-and-audio/bridge-audio.mp3">
      </audio>

    </div>

  </body>
</html>

5 Answers

Thas Eagans
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Thas Eagans
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Hmmmm....try adding the type attribute.

      <audio>
<source src="http://treehouse-code-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/html-video-and-audio/bridge-audio.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
      </audio>

</TREagans>

Thas Eagans
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Thas Eagans
Thas Eagans
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It seems this should work then.

<audio>
  <source src="http://treehouse-code-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/html-video-and-audio/bridge-audio.mp3">
</audio>

</TREagans>

Kallil Belmonte
Kallil Belmonte
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Kallil Belmonte
Kallil Belmonte
35,561 Points

Actually what is counting is the: 

<audio src="http://treehouse-code samples.s3.amazonaws.com/html-video-and-audio/bridge-audio.mp3" type="audio/mp3">

The 

<audio controls>

that you've added before doesn't ruins the task apparently (Does not make difference)

Thas Eagans
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Thas Eagans
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I'm not sure what the assignment is saying as I haven't done it, but the code that I usually use for audio with no problems are:

<audio controls>
  <source src="file.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
</audio>

</TREagans>

Kallil Belmonte
Kallil Belmonte
35,561 Points
Kallil Belmonte
Kallil Belmonte
35,561 Points

The first task asks for an Audio self closing tag, so to continue put this:

<audio src="http://treehouse-code-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/html-video-and-audio/bridge-audio.mp3">
ameshuffle
ameshuffle
8,966 Points

Yes this is the one that worked! But the rest of the code went out like this and it passed :

```<audio controls> <audio src="http://treehouse-code samples.s3.amazonaws.com/html-video-and-audio/bridge-audio.mp3" type="audio/mp3">

Oh yeah and it closes with the "audio" tag. 

Weird...