kind

Property of dom/HTMLTrackElementdom/HTMLTrackElement

Syntax

var result = element.kind;
element.kind = value;

Notes

Remarks

The keywords can be one of the following:

• subtitles - A transcription or translation of the audio dialog.
• captions - A transcription or translation of the dialog, sound effects, musical cues, or other audio information.
• descriptions - Textual descriptions of the video component, intended for audio synthesis, such as text-to-speech conversion, when the video component is not viewable by the user.
• chapters - Chapter titles to be used for navigating the video content.
• metadata - Information available to be used from script, not displayed in the player or browser.

This property is not implemented for the AudioTrack object. Note To create timed text files in both Web Video Text Track (WebVTT) and Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) formats, see HTML5 Video Caption Maker on the Windows Internet Explorer test drive site.

Syntax

Standards information

• HTML5 A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML

See also

Related pages

• track element
• track object
• TextTrackTextTrack
• AudioTrackAudioTrack

Attributions

• Microsoft Developer Network: [Windows Internet Explorer API reference Article]