A video with two subtitle tracks:
The <track> tag specifies text tracks for media elements (<audio> and <video>).
This element is used to specify subtitles, caption files or other files containing text, that should be visible when the media is playing.
The numbers in the table specify the first browser version that fully supports the element.
Element | |||||
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<track> | 18.0 | 10.0 | 31.0 | 6.0 | 15.0 |
The <track> tag is new in HTML5.
= New in HTML5.
Attribute | Value | Description |
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default | default | Specifies that the track is to be enabled if the user's preferences do not indicate that another track would be more appropriate |
kind | captions chapters descriptions metadata subtitles |
Specifies the kind of text track |
label | text | Specifies the title of the text track |
src | URL | Required. Specifies the URL of the track file |
srclang | language_code | Specifies the language of the track text data (required if kind="subtitles") |
The <track> tag also supports the Global Attributes in HTML.
The <track> tag also supports the Event Attributes in HTML.
HTML tutorial: HTML5 Video
HTML tutorial: HTML5 Audio
HTML DOM reference: Track Object
None.