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.
<video width="320" height="240" controls>
<source src="/cft/forrest_gump.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="/cft/forrest_gump.ogg" type="video/ogg">
<track src="/cft/subtitles_en.vtt" kind="subtitles" srclang="en" label="English">
<track src="/cft/subtitles_no.vtt" kind="subtitles" srclang="no" label="Norwegian">
</video>
Attribute | Value | Description |
---|---|---|
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") |