How to play audio?

Question

I am making a game with HTML5 and JavaScript.

How could I play game audio via JavaScript?

Answer 1

It's easy, just get your audio element and call the play() method:

document.getElementById('yourAudioTag').play();

Check out this example: http://www.storiesinflight.com/html5/audio.html

This site uncovers some of the other cool things you can do such as load(), pause(), and a few other properties of the audio element.