diff --git a/files/en-us/web/media/audio_and_video_delivery/adding_captions_and_subtitles_to_html5_video/index.md b/files/en-us/web/media/audio_and_video_delivery/adding_captions_and_subtitles_to_html5_video/index.md
index 01de51f52a17722..fa8195f5583298b 100644
--- a/files/en-us/web/media/audio_and_video_delivery/adding_captions_and_subtitles_to_html5_video/index.md
+++ b/files/en-us/web/media/audio_and_video_delivery/adding_captions_and_subtitles_to_html5_video/index.md
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ All we need to do is to go through the video's `textTracks`, reading their prope
 let subtitlesMenu;
 if (video.textTracks) {
   const df = document.createDocumentFragment();
-  const subtitlesMenu = df.appendChild(document.createElement("ul"));
+  subtitlesMenu = df.appendChild(document.createElement("ul"));
   subtitlesMenu.className = "subtitles-menu";
   subtitlesMenu.appendChild(createMenuItem("subtitles-off", "", "Off"));
   for (let i = 0; i < video.textTracks.length; i++) {