# Breaking a textfield with AS

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/breaking-a-textfield-with-as/205029>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 25, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/breaking-a-textfield-with-as/205029 "2006-10-25T14:45:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Esseti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bb73d2/32.png) [@Esseti](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Esseti)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/breaking-a-textfield-with-as/205029/1 "2006-10-25T14:45:51Z")

</div>

Is it possible to break (Ctrl + B) a created textfield with AS, and have the letter instances named somehow? I need this to write a text animation.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![MureJIb](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/murejib/32/2994_2.png) [@MureJIb](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MureJIb)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/breaking-a-textfield-with-as/205029/2 "2006-10-25T15:52:11Z")

</div>

no way to break apart text via AS  
But there is a way to create animated text set by a String.

In flash8 you can try to “break” it using BitmapData class by turning your textField to a several bitmaps. But there’s a lot of headache ))

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![TheCanadian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/breaking-a-textfield-with-as/205029/3 "2006-10-25T21:47:40Z")

</div>

Or you could create a seperate texfield for each letter.