Please<audio>
Safe to use with polyfillhtmlAs is the case with video, you can provide your audio in multiple formats.
- Verdict
- Safe to use
- Category
- HTML features
- Browser support
- Can I Use
- Works in
- IE9+
Should you use <audio> in 2026?
But it’s not necessary if you only target modern browsers. See browser media codec support in 2018, or mdn browser compatibility tables.
A polyfill is only needed for IE8 and below. Sound Manager has an extensive API for further customization. mediaelement.js offers the HTML5 media element API through Flash in the fallback case and offers uniform styling across browsers and to the Flash widget.