VTTCue: text property
Baseline Widely available *
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.
The text property of the VTTCue interface represents the text contents of the cue.
Value
A string containing the raw text of the cue.
Examples
In the following example a new VTTCue is created, then the value of size is set to the string "new cue value". The value is then printed to the console.
js
let video = document.querySelector("video");
let track = video.addTextTrack("captions", "Captions", "en");
track.mode = "showing";
let cue1 = new VTTCue(0, 0.9, "Hildy!");
cue1.text = "new cue value";
console.log(cue1.text); // 'new cue value';
track.addCue(cue1);
Specifications
| Specification |
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| WebVTT: The Web Video Text Tracks Format # dom-vttcue-text |
Browser compatibility
| desktop | mobile | |||||||||||
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text | ||||||||||||
All HTML character references allowed. | ||||||||||||