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.
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 |
|---|
| WebVTT: The Web Video Text Tracks Format # dom-vttcue-text |
Browser compatibility
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