#Customize html5 audio player css code#
#Customize html5 audio player css download#

& amp amp amp amp lt audio id='audio' src=' & amp amp amp amp gt & amp amp amp amp lt /audio& amp amp amp amp gt & amp amp amp amp lt button id='play'& amp amp amp amp gt Play& amp amp amp amp lt /button& amp amp amp amp gt & amp amp amp amp lt button id='pause'& amp amp amp amp gt Pause& amp amp amp amp lt /button& amp amp amp amp gt For starters let’s create our audio tag without controls, as well as a button to play the audio and a button to pause. So let’s first focus on the play / pause buttons. Now for this project simply using the default controls was not an option, this is where good’ol jQuery came into play.

The audio tag is relatively easy to use, for my example all you have to do is set the audio tag, add a src and everything is in place, adding the controls attribute will give you some nice simple controls generated by the browser and all should be golden – for example ( jsFiddle): Check the jsFiddle & amp amp amp amp lt audio src=' controls='controls'& amp amp amp amp gt & amp amp amp amp lt /audio& amp amp amp amp gt The design that I was given for the player is shown below and it required some modifications further down the line to account for the lack off support of some features that we added (but more on this later).

#Customize html5 audio player css download#

Luckily for me, the scope of the project was small enough that I only had one file type to worry about and IE 8 and lower just had to show a message offering a direct link to the stream (which would open in media player) or prompt them to download a more up-to-date browser because of this I didn’t have any trouble setting up the basic player.

#Customize html5 audio player css code#

These issues mainly consisted of non-HTML 5 browsers obviously not supporting the tag, and a strange one in firefox in which a certain file type would not load and the fallback code would also not render. The examples that I found were all so simple and the use of the tag itself is quite easy to understand, however, it became apparent that there were a number of issues on various browsers that a lot of people were talking about. With little knowledge of the audio tag in general, I set out looking at examples and limitations. The brief was quite simple, they wanted a custom designed and made audio player, to act as a back-up in case a user did not have java installed on their machine. Since that post, they’ve asked us to work on a number of other small projects for the site, one of which I had no prior experience of – HTML Audio tags. Recently we wrote a post called Web Design for Hushh Online Radio in which we outline the design phases for their new website.