VTTCue: align 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 align property of the VTTCue interface represents the alignment of all of the lines of text in the text box.

Value

A string containing one of the following values:

"start"

Start alignment.

"center"

Center alignment.

"end"

End alignment.

"left"

Left alignment.

Right alignment.

Examples

In the following example a new VTTCue is created, then the value of align is set to "start". 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.align = "start";
console.log(cue.align);

track.addCue(cue);

Specifications

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

Browser compatibility