This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.
The line property of the VTTCue interface represents the cue line of this WebVTT cue.
A number, or "auto" representing the cue line of this WebVTT cue.
In the following example a new VTTCue is created, then the value of line is set to 1. The value is then printed to the console.
let video = document.querySelector("video");
let track = video.addTextTrack("captions", "Captions", "en");
track.mode = "showing";
let cue = new VTTCue(0, 0.9, "Hildy!");
cue.line = "1";
console.log(cue.line);
track.addCue(cue);
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
line |
23 | 79 | 31 | ≤12.1 | 6 | 25 | 31 | ≤12.1 | 8 | 1.5 | 4.4 | 8 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/VTTCue/line