VTTCue: text property

Baseline Widely available *

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.

The text property of the VTTCue interface represents the text contents of the cue.

Value

A string containing the raw text of the cue.

Examples

In the following example a new VTTCue is created, then the value of size is set to the string "new cue value". The value is then printed to the console.

js
let video = document.querySelector("video");
let track = video.addTextTrack("captions", "Captions", "en");
track.mode = "showing";

let cue = new VTTCue(0, 0.9, "Hildy!");
cue.text = "new cue value";
console.log(cue.text); // 'new cue value';

track.addCue(cue);

Specifications

Specification
WebVTT: The Web Video Text Tracks Format
# dom-vttcue-text

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
text
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 23 (Release date: 2012-11-06)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 12 (Release date: 2015-07-29)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 31 (Release date: 2014-07-22)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 12.1 (Release date: 2012-11-20)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 6 (Release date: 2012-07-25)
footnote Full support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 25 (Release date: 2013-02-27)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 31 (Release date: 2014-07-22)
footnote Full support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 12.1 (Release date: 2012-10-09)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 8 (Release date: 2014-09-17)
footnote Full support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 1.5 (Release date: 2013-09-25)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 4.4 (Release date: 2013-12-09)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – Full support
WebView on iOS 8 (Release date: 2014-09-17)
footnote Full support
Allows all HTML character references
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 63 (Release date: 2017-12-06)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 127 (Release date: 2024-06-11)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 50 (Release date: 2018-01-04)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 17.5 (Release date: 2024-05-13)
footnote Full support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 63 (Release date: 2017-12-05)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 127 (Release date: 2024-06-11)
footnote Full support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 46 (Release date: 2018-05-14)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 17.5 (Release date: 2024-05-13)
footnote Full support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 8 (Release date: 2018-07-18)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 63 (Release date: 2017-12-05)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – Full support
WebView on iOS 17.5 (Release date: 2024-05-13)
footnote Full support

Legend

Tip: you can click/tap on a cell for more information.

Full support
Full support