# Possible to clip bounds of Sprite/Movieclip?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/possible-to-clip-bounds-of-sprite-movieclip/255698>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 26, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/possible-to-clip-bounds-of-sprite-movieclip/255698 "2008-03-26T00:42:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![rinogo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a5b964/32.png) [@rinogo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rinogo)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/possible-to-clip-bounds-of-sprite-movieclip/255698/1 "2008-03-26T00:42:06Z")

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Easy noob question for you: I’m using addChild() to add bitmaps to a 100x100 Sprite. I’m positioning these bitmaps with their x and y parameters. However, if the bitmap ‘spills’ over the edge of the 100x100 Sprite, I want it to be clipped. In other words, if I place a 50x50 image at the x,y coordinates of 90, 90, I only want the upper-left corner 10x10 pixels of the image to be shown. Does that make sense? How can I do this? Is there some ‘clip’ parameter?

Thanks in advance! 🙂  
-Rich