This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.
The vertical property of the VTTCue interface is a string representing the cue's writing direction.
A string containing one of the following values:
"" (an empty string)Represents a horizontal writing direction.
"rl"Represents a vertical writing direction growing to the left.
"lr"Represents a vertical writing direction growing to the right.
In the following example a new VTTCue is created, then the value of vertical is set to "rl". 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.vertical = "rl";
console.log(cue.vertical);
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 | |
vertical |
23 | 79 | 31 | 15 | 6 | 25 | 31 | 14 | 8 | 1.5 | 4.4 | 8 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/VTTCue/vertical