# Changing the colour of a letter in a textfield

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-the-colour-of-a-letter-in-a-textfield/239676>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 24, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-the-colour-of-a-letter-in-a-textfield/239676 "2007-09-24T19:39:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![clodagh2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@clodagh2000](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/clodagh2000)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-the-colour-of-a-letter-in-a-textfield/239676/1 "2007-09-24T19:39:25Z")

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Hi,

I want to change the colours of individual characters in a textfield, after it already contains text e.g.:

**Hello**

// I have a function to change the 4th character red

**[COLOR=Black]H[/COLOR]el[COLOR=Red]l[/COLOR]o**

I do not want to overwrite the original Textfield but amend the font colour of a particular character.

Is this possible or can I only change the colour of the whole textfield and not the original character? Is there another better way?

Thanks in advance

Clo