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Deprecated in HTML5. Do not use.

<sound> HTML Tag

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What does <sound> HTML Tag do?
The <sound> element was used in the Mosaic browser to add sound files to HTML documents. It was never formally adopted in an HTML standard and has no support among modern browsers. Instead, use the modern HTML5 element <audio>.
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<sound> is not valid HTML. Use .

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