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TextTrack: activeCues property

The activeCues read-only property of the TextTrack interface returns a TextTrackCueList object listing the currently active cues.

Value

Examples

The following example adds a new TextTrack to a video. The activeCues are printed to the console.

js

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

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
activeCues 23 12
31Starting in Firefox 69, cues are no longer incorrectly loaded when the TextTrack's mode is disabled; if that's the case, the returned list is empty.
10 ≤12.1 6 4.4 25 31 ≤12.1 7 1.5

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