TextTrackList: change 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.

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The change event is fired when a text track is made active or inactive, or a TextTrackList is otherwise changed.

Syntax

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

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

onchange = (event) => {};

Event type

A generic Event with no added properties.

Examples

Using addEventListener():

js
const mediaElement = document.querySelectorAll("video, audio")[0];
mediaElement.textTracks.addEventListener("change", (event) => {
  console.log(`'${event.type}' event fired`);
});

Using the onchange event handler property:

js
const mediaElement = document.querySelector("video, audio");
mediaElement.textTracks.onchange = (event) => {
  console.log(`'${event.type}' event fired`);
};

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# event-media-change
HTML
# handler-tracklist-onchange

Browser compatibility

See also