This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since October 2018.
The removetrack event is fired when a track is removed from a TextTrackList.
Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.
addEventListener("removetrack", (event) => { })
onremovetrack = (event) => { }
A TrackEvent. Inherits from Event.
In addition to the properties listed below, properties from the parent interface, Event, are available.
Using addEventListener():
const mediaElement = document.querySelector("video, audio");
mediaElement.textTracks.addEventListener("removetrack", (event) => {
console.log(`Text track: ${event.track.label} removed`);
});
Using the onremovetrack event handler property:
const mediaElement = document.querySelector("video, audio");
mediaElement.textTracks.onremovetrack = (event) => {
console.log(`Text track: ${event.track.label} removed`);
};
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
removetrack_event |
33 | 18 | 31 | 20≤12.1–15 | 7 | 33 | 31 | 20≤12.1–14 | 7 | 2.0 | 4.4 | 7 |
addtrack, change
VideoTrackList targets: removetrack
AudioTrackList targets: removetrack
MediaStream targets: removetrack
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextTrackList/removetrack_event