# Can subtitles be position top? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Help\ **Created:** [June 5, 2025, 9:27am UTC](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/can-subtitles-be-position-top/3679 "2025-06-05T09:27:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Andy\_Moorman](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.evolveauthoring.com/andy_moorman/32/314_2.png) [@Andy\_Moorman](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/u/Andy_Moorman)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 9:27am UTC](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/can-subtitles-be-position-top/3679/1 "2025-06-05T09:27:33Z")
Hi, we’re using the media component with webVTT subtitles. In certain parts of the video, on-screen graphics appear, so we want to position the subtitles at the top of the screen. We’ve added _position: top position-alignment: middle_ to the relevant line, but it makes no difference. How do we get the subs to the top? ---
**Author:** ![Matt\_Leathes](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.evolveauthoring.com/matt_leathes/32/586_2.png) [@Matt\_Leathes](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/u/Matt_Leathes)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 11:18am UTC](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/can-subtitles-be-position-top/3679/2 "2025-06-05T11:18:18Z")
It’s been a while since I worked with VTT files but I don’t think `top` is a valid value for `position` - nor is `position-alignment` a valid [Cue Setting](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebVTT_API/Web_Video_Text_Tracks_Format#cue_settings). TBH it’s probably easiest to use a proper subtitle editing program to handle things like this, I always used to use [Subtitle Edit](https://www.nikse.dk/) (Windows-only). The very start of [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcstvg596Xw&) shows how to do that sort of positioning using Subtitle Edit. (BTW it’s not Evolve that renders the subtitles, it’s the browser itself that does it)