VTTCue: vertical property
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.
The vertical
property of the VTTCue
interface is a string representing the cue's writing direction.
Value
A string containing one of the following values:
""
(an empty string)-
Represents a horizontal writing direction.
"rl"
-
Represents a vertical writing direction growing to the left.
"lr"
-
Represents a vertical writing direction growing to the right.
Examples
In the following example a new VTTCue
is created, then the value of vertical
is set to "rl"
. 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 cue1 = new VTTCue(0, 0.9, "Hildy!");
cue1.vertical = "rl";
console.log(cue1.vertical);
track.addCue(cue1);
Specifications
Specification |
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WebVTT: The Web Video Text Tracks Format # dom-vttcue-vertical |
Browser compatibility
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