TextTrack.activeCues

The activeCues read-only property of the TextTrack interface returns a TextTrackCueList object listing the currently active cues.

Syntax

let activeCues = TextTrack.activeCues;

Value

A TextTrackCueList object.

Examples

The following example adds a new TextTrack to a video. The activeCues are printed to the console.

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

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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activeCues
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Starting in Firefox 69, cues are no longer incorrectly loaded when the TextTrack's mode is disabled; if that's the case, the returned list is empty.
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