<track>: The HTML Track Element

1 Description

The HTML <track> element is used in conjunction with the <audio> and <video> elements to specify a timed text track which can be displayed to the user alongside video or audio content.

Multiple <track> elements can be defined as children of a single <video> element or <audio> element.

2 Examples

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Example Page</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>Example HTML Page</h1>
        <p>This is a video of a penguine.</p>
        <video>
            <source src="/media/video/penguine_1.webm" type="video/webm"/>
            <track default kind="captions" srclang="en" src="/media/track/penguine_1.vtt"/>
        </video>
    </body>
</html>

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