TextTrack: language property

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The language read-only property of the {{domxref("TextTrack")}} interface returns the language of the text track.

Value

A string containing a language identifier. This will be a valid {{glossary("BCP 47 language tag")}}, for example "en-US" for United States English or "pt-BR" for Brazilian Portuguese.

Examples

In the following example the value of language is printed to the console.

let video = document.querySelector("video");
let track = video.addTextTrack("captions", "Captions", "en-US");
track.mode = "showing";
console.log(track.language);

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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