What does “type” do?

Question

When you’re adding a video or audio element in HTML, what does “type=____” mean?

Answer 1

read this:
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_audio.asp

https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_audio.asp

file types
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/Containers