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HTML HTML Video and Audio Media Basics The Audio Element

Posted by web pad
web pad
4,483 Points

Why do we need to put the src attribute inside the audio tag, a different process than in the tutorial wherein we put.

I was marked wrong at Challenge Task 2 of 4. It says:

On the <audio>tag, use the src attribute to add this url as the audio file. http:********.mp3

My question is that, why is it different than what is on the tutorial? Why can I not put the src inside the <source> tag?

web pad
web pad
4,483 Points

Thank you for the response.

1 Answer

Chayan Martinez
Chayan Martinez
3,810 Points
Chayan Martinez
Chayan Martinez
3,810 Points

My guess is because <source> tag goes for multiple meaning from pictures, to videos and to audio. So by putting the src attribute in the audio element, it tells the computer specifically what it is referring to and in the challenge, it is specifically talking about the audio and not both the video and audio. Even the URL slightly changes and maybe the computer builds a connection between the two sources URLs from <audio> and <video> since in a sense it's like you're communicating with the computer haha. Like in a way saying if you're gonna do it one way you gotta be specific and not be general about it I guess. Or maybe that was how it use to operate back when they made the video first and not HTML5 got an update and now the code is slightly different. I tried :P

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/source