TextTrackCue: enter event

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.

The enter event fires when a cue becomes active. In the case of subtitles or a caption this is when it displays over the media.

Syntax

Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.

js
addEventListener("enter", (event) => {});

onenter = (event) => {};

Event type

A generic Event with no added properties.

Example

In the following example, cue1 prints to the console when it is the active cue.

js
cue1.addEventListener("enter", (event) => {
  console.log("Cue 1 has displayed");
});

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# event-media-enter
HTML Standard
# handler-texttrackcue-onenter

Browser compatibility

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