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TextTrack: id property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨October 2018⁩.

The id read-only property of the TextTrack interface returns the ID of the track if it has one.

Value

A string containing the ID, or an empty string.

Examples

In the following example the value of id is printed to the console.

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

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
id 33 18 31 20 8 33 31 20 8 2.0 4.4.3 8

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextTrack/id