# Text with background

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-with-background/63337>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 5, 2004, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-with-background/63337 "2004-09-05T16:44:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![laforge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@laforge](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/laforge)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-with-background/63337/1 "2004-09-05T16:44:19Z")

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Ok i am new at flash but i am learning. On the random motion thing, how do you put the text in the corner with that little background just around that one part?:puzzled:

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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:** [September 5, 2004, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-with-background/63337/2 "2004-09-05T18:14:52Z")

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“with that little background just around that one part?” ??? Are you refering to a tut. If you are, you may want to include a hyperlink to what your referencing. Someone else may know specifically what your talking about but I don’t.

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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:** [September 5, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-with-background/63337/3 "2004-09-05T18:35:13Z")

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Yea i guess i was being a little vauge. The link is here [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/random\_motion.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/random_motion.htm) the text part where it has the blue background around it only. I was wondering how to do it

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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:** [September 5, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-with-background/63337/4 "2004-09-05T18:43:44Z")

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just draw in on the main timeline ;), it’s not done in as 🙂