TextTrackCue: startTime 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.

The startTime property of the TextTrackCue interface returns and sets the start time of the cue.

Value

A number representing the start time, in seconds.

Examples

In the following example a new VTTCue (which inherits from TextTrackCue) is created starting at 0.1 second and ending at 0.9 seconds. The startTime property 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(0.1, 0.9, "Hildy!");
console.log(cue.startTime); // 0.1
track.addCue(cue);

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-texttrackcue-starttime

Browser compatibility