VTTCue: align property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.

The align property of the VTTCue interface represents the alignment of all of the lines of text in the text box.

Value

A string containing one of the following values:

"start"

Start alignment.

"center"

Center alignment.

"end"

End alignment.

"left"

Left alignment.

Right alignment.

Examples

In the following example a new VTTCue is created, then the value of align is set to "start". 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.align = "start";
console.log(cue1.align);

track.addCue(cue1);

Specifications

Specification
WebVTT: The Web Video Text Tracks Format
# dom-vttcue-align

Browser compatibility

Report problems with this compatibility data on GitHub
desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
align

Legend

Tip: you can click/tap on a cell for more information.

Full support
Full support