Stopping Sound
Question: How do I write a JavaScript function that stops playing sound?
Answer:
If you've opened a separate sound control window using the code
self.location="AUDIO_FILE_URL"
(see Example 1),
then there is no simple way to stop the sound programmatically.
The user will have to close the sound control window manually.
To be able to stop playing sound from JavaScript,
you'll need to use the techniques described in
Example 2.
Let's assume that
Microsoft Internet Explorer
is playing the sound file
mySound.mid
specified by the
BGSOUND
tag
<BGSOUND ID="BGSOUND_ID" SRC="mySound.mid">
To stop playing the sound, you can use this code:
document.all['BGSOUND_ID'].src='jsilence.mid'
Here
jsilence.mid
is a "do-nothing" sound file
- it does not play
any sound at all.
Now assume that Netscape Navigator
is playing the sound
mySound.mid
specified by the following
EMBED
tag:
<EMBED NAME="mySound" SRC="mySound.mid"
LOOP=FALSE AUTOSTART=FALSE HIDDEN=TRUE MASTERSOUND>
Then you can use the following code to stop the playback:
document.mySound.stop()
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