The addCue() method of the TextTrack interface adds a new cue to the list of cues.
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TextTrack: addCue() method
Syntax
js
addCue(cue)
Parameters
-
cue -
A
TextTrackCue.
Note: The TextTrackCue interface is an abstract class used as the parent for other cue interfaces such as VTTCue. Therefore, when adding a cue you will be using one of the cue types that inherit from TextTrackCue.
Return value
Undefined.
Exceptions
InvalidStateErrorDOMException-
Thrown if the rules for this
TextTrackListdo not match those that are appropriate for the incomingTextTrackCue.
Examples
In the following example two cues are added to a video text track using addCue().
js
let video = document.querySelector("video");
let track = video.addTextTrack("captions", "Captions", "en");
track.mode = "showing";
track.addCue(new VTTCue(0, 0.9, "Hildy!"));
track.addCue(new VTTCue(1, 1.4, "How are you?"));
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML Standard # dom-texttrack-addcue-dev |
Browser compatibility
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
addCue |
23 | 12 | 31 | 10 | ≤12.1 | 6 | 4.4 | 25 | 31 | ≤12.1 | 7 | 1.5 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextTrack/addCue