HTML Element: <track>
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The HTML <track> element indicates a text
track for a media element, i.e. a <video> or <audio>. It is
new in HTML 5. It is used to specify subtitles, captions or other files
containing text that should be visible when the media is playing.
The attributes
it can take (in addition to HTML global
attributes and HTML
event attributes) are:
Attribute
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Description
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More
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default
|
Default track / command
to be enabled unless user preferences specify otherwise
|
Here
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kind
|
Kind of text track
|
Here
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label
|
Title / label of track
or command or group of commands
|
Here
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src
|
URL of track
file
|
Here
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srclang
|
Language of track text
data
|
Here
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To
create or access such an element in JavaScript
see here. The
corresponding HTML DOM
object supports standard
DOM properties and methods, and additional properties with the same name and
meaning as the attributes of the underlying HTML element referred to above. It also supports the following additional properties and
methods:
Property
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Description
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More
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readyState
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Returns current state of track resource
|
Here
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track
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Returns TextTrack object representing the text track data of the
track element
|
Here
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The default style
applicable to this element is shown here.
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