TextTrack: language 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.
The language
read-only property of the TextTrack
interface returns the language of the text track.
Value
A string containing a language identifier. This will be a valid BCP 47 language tag, for example "en-US"
for United States English or "pt-BR"
for Brazilian Portuguese.
Examples
In the following example the value of language
is printed to the console.
js
let video = document.querySelector("video");
let track = video.addTextTrack("captions", "Captions", "en-US");
track.mode = "showing";
console.log(track.language);
Specifications
Specification |
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HTML> # dom-texttrack-language-dev> |
Browser compatibility
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