<track>

The <track> element allows authors to specify explicit external timed tracks for media elements. It does not represent anything on its own.

HTML Attributes

• kind = subtitles/ captions/ descriptions/ chapters/ metadata
  
  • subtitles
    Transcription or translation of the dialogue, suitable for when the sound is available but not understood
  • captions
    Transcription or translation of the dialogue, sound effects, relevant musical cues, and other relevant audio information, suitable for when the soundtrack is unavailable
  • descriptions
    Textual descriptions of the video component of the media resource, intended for audio synthesis when the visual component is unavailable
  • chapters
    Chapter titles, intended to be used for navigating the media resource.
  • metadatas
    Tracks intended for use from script.

• src = valid non-empty URL potentially surrounded by spaces
  Gives the address of the timed track data.
  This attribute must be present.

• charset = character encoding name

• srclang = valid BCP47 language tag.
  Gives the language of the timed track data.
  This attribute must be present if the element's kind attribute is in the subtitles state.

• label = string
  Gives a user-readable title for the track.

See also global attributes.

Examples

This video has subtitles in several languages:

<video src="brave.webm">
 <track kind=subtitles src=brave.en.srt srclang=en label="English">
 <track kind=captions src=brave.en.srt srclang=en label="English for the Hard of Hearing">
 <track kind=subtitles src=brave.fr.srt srclang=fr label="Français">
 <track kind=subtitles src=brave.de.srt srclang=de label="Deutsch">
</video>

HTML reference

This element was introduced in HTML5 - 4.8.9 The track element.

See also

• <audio>
• <video>