TextTrack.language
The language
read-only property of the TextTrack
interface returns the language of the text track.
This uses the same values as the HTML lang
attribute. These values are documented in RFC 5646: Tags for Identifying Languages (also known as BCP 47).
Value
A string
containing a language identifier. 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.
let video = document.querySelector('video');
let track = video.addTextTrack("captions", "Captions", "en-US");
track.mode = "showing";
console.log(track.language);
Specifications
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