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HTML HTML Video and Audio Media Basics The Audio Element

Posted by mo sleiman
mo sleiman
2,743 Points

On the <audio> tag, add the proper type attribute that corresponds to the source file.

what am i doing wrong

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>
<audio src="http://treehouse-code-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/html-video-and-audio/bridge-audio.mp3" "type/mp3">
    </audio>
    <h1>HTML Video and Audio</h1>

    <div class="wrapper">

      <!-- Add your code below this line -->


    </div>

  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Gabriel Plackey
Gabriel Plackey
11,064 Points
Gabriel Plackey
Gabriel Plackey
11,064 Points

You are very close, it looks like you just ran into a syntax error. it's going to be, you need type then equals mp3/audio in quotations. Like so:

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