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Seems like it should be 'block'. The spec says "All other non-inherited properties must be set to their initial values" which would be 'inline' for the "list of WebVTT Node Objects".
It's position:absolute, which makes display:inline compute to block. https://drafts.csswg.org/css-position-3/#dis-pos-flo