The present technology relates to a display control method, a recording medium, and a display control device with which a subtitle forced display function can be implemented on the basis of TTML (Timed Text Markup Language). TTML data in which predetermined attribute information pertaining to subtitle forced display is described in a tag defining an element of text is used. At a content playback side, control is performed on the basis of the predetermined attribute information in the TTML data, in such a way that characters based on text data designated by the tag in which the attribute information is written are displayed on a display unit regardless of whether a subtitle display setting is ON or OFF. Owing to this kind of configuration, text data serving as a predetermined text element from among text elements (text data serving as subtitles) within the TTML data can be displayed regardless of whether a subtitle display setting is ON or OFF. In other words, a subtitle forced display function can be implemented on the basis of TTML.