# AS3: Masking multiple text elements into a background

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-masking-multiple-text-elements-into-a-background/297821
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [October 8, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-masking-multiple-text-elements-into-a-background/297821 "2009-10-08T18:28:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![andriusain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e5b9ba/32.png) [@andriusain](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/andriusain)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-masking-multiple-text-elements-into-a-background/297821/1 "2009-10-08T18:28:30Z")

</div>

Hello all, I would really appreciate your help here.

I have several text fields (with different numbers written on them) each inside their own movie clip. There is a background underneath all of them. What I want to achieve is to cut the shape of each of the numbers into the background. They should still be able to behave as separate movie clips.

Any direction would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!