# Change text colour on mouse trail tutorial

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/change-text-colour-on-mouse-trail-tutorial/62248>\
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**Created:** [August 26, 2004, 6:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/change-text-colour-on-mouse-trail-tutorial/62248 "2004-08-26T06:12:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Walrus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/51bf81/32.png) [@Walrus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Walrus)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 6:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/change-text-colour-on-mouse-trail-tutorial/62248/1 "2004-08-26T06:12:41Z")

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Hi all. I was wondering how you change the text colour with action script. The Kirupa mouse trail tutorial I was looking at has the following script for the text:

letterformat = new TextFormat();  
letterformat.font = “Verdana”;  
letterformat.align = “center”;  
letterformat.size = “10”;

I thought I could change the color by adding:

letterformat.color = “#FFCC00”;

Is there a way to do this or am I way off track? Any help much appreciated.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 6:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/change-text-colour-on-mouse-trail-tutorial/62248/2 "2004-08-26T06:23:29Z")

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You were very close:[AS]letters = Text.split("");  
letterformat = new TextFormat();  
letterformat.font = “Verdana”;  
letterformat.align = “center”;  
letterformat.size = “10”;  
**letterformat.color = 0x003468;**  
spacing = 8;  
speed = 3;[/AS]😉

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 6:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/change-text-colour-on-mouse-trail-tutorial/62248/3 "2004-08-26T06:25:34Z")

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hmm…  
isn’t it suppose to be textColor?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 6:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/change-text-colour-on-mouse-trail-tutorial/62248/4 "2004-08-26T06:26:29Z")

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Thanks so much for your quick reply.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 6:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/change-text-colour-on-mouse-trail-tutorial/62248/5 "2004-08-26T06:27:22Z")

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You’re welcome. :thumb: