# Setting a random background color

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setting-a-random-background-color/130783>\
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**Created:** [December 8, 2004, 3:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setting-a-random-background-color/130783 "2004-12-08T15:56:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ketchupman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ketchupman](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ketchupman)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 3:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setting-a-random-background-color/130783/1 "2004-12-08T15:56:25Z")

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So I was reading through the color tutorials and I couldn’t find how to set a random background color(or if you can actually do that).

what i’m doing is I have a set of movie clips with a frame action that randomly selects a color, for the movie clips, out of 10 colors in an array. I wanted to do the same for the background but I don’t know how to target the background.

I’m sure there’s some easy solution to this that I can’t find but any help would be greatly appreciated :nerd: