TextTrack.kind
The kind
read-only property of the TextTrack
interface returns the kind of text track this object represents. This decides how the track will be handled by a user agent.
Value
A string
. One of:
"subtitles"
-
The cues are overlaid on the video. Positioning of the cues is controlled using the properties of an object that inherits from
TextTrackCue
, for exampleVTTCue
. -
The cues are overlaid on the video. Positioning of the cues is controlled using the properties of an object that inherits from
TextTrackCue
, for exampleVTTCue
. "descriptions"
-
The cues are made available in a non-visual fashion.
"chapters"
-
The user agent will make available a mechanism to navigate by selecting a cue.
"metadata"
-
Additional data related to the media data, which could be used for interactive views.
Examples
In the following example the value of kind
is printed to the console.
let video = document.querySelector('video');
let track = video.addTextTrack("captions", "Captions", "en");
track.mode = "showing";
console.log(track.kind);
Specifications
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