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Old Pedant · 02-13-2013, 04:32 AM

By the by, a sneaky way I do this:

Code:

<a href="someFile.wav" target="hiddenFrame"> Play sound </a>

<iframe name="hiddenFrame" style="width: 100%; height: 100ps; display: none;"></iframe>

Or you can pass in the file name and parse the query string:

Code:

<a href="playSound.html?file=someFile.wav" target="hiddenFrame"> Play sound </a>

<iframe name="hiddenFrame" style="width: 100%; height: 100ps; display: none;"></iframe>

And then your "playSound.html" (or it could be ".php" or ".asp" page! which might have advantages) looks at the query string and figures out what file to load and play.

02-13-2013, 04:32 AM	PM User \| #3
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