Captions JavaScript not working anymore

Jan 09, 2020

Hello all!

I've been using this script

if (/_html5.html/.test(window.location.href)) {
 if (!window.alteredCaptions){
 var sheet = document.createElement('style');
 sheet.innerHTML = ".caption{font-size:175% !important;}";
 document.body.appendChild(sheet);
 window.alteredCaptions = true;
 }
}

when trying to make captions in Storyline compliant. It doesn't seem to work anymore. Any changes to Storyline I'm unaware of? Any (other) workarounds?

Best regards

Michael

6 Replies

Michael Ambech
Author

4 years ago02/07/20 at 2:23 pm (UTC)

I never thanked you for this, Matt... Thanks!

Jerry Beaucaire

almost 4 years ago07/17/20 at 7:29 pm (UTC)

If I wanted to use this, what would I need to add to force CAPTIONS to turn on for a specific slide where I was using this?

I have Spanish "content" available all through a course, but on one slide I have a video in english where we have created Spanish captions. I would like to:

a) make the captions come on automatically controlled by a variable "Spanish=True"

b) have the captions be large

Thanks in advance.

almost 4 years ago07/17/20 at 7:37 pm (UTC)

To increase size of caption you can do this by increasing the player font.

Add a trigger to adjust variable player.captions to true if spanish is equal to true

Sent from my iPhone

Jerry Beaucaire

almost 4 years ago07/18/20 at 11:44 am (UTC)

Perfect. Thanks!

Amber Rodbell

over 3 years ago12/04/20 at 1:59 pm (UTC)

This doesn't work for me in Safari - is there a fix for this?

Karen Cooper

almost 3 years ago06/28/21 at 11:03 pm (UTC)

Hi,

Based on the above change to the JavaSrript Michael B. suggested above for changing the font size, it seems this should work for changing the captions location. However, I'm having no luck. I must be missing something?:

if (!window.movedCaptions){

var sheet = document.createElement('style');

sheet.innerHTML = ".caption{margin-bottom: 560px;}";

document.body.appendChild(sheet);

window.movedCaptions = true;

}

I'd appreciate any help.

Thanks!

Karen