# Animate Text

**URL:** <https://phaser.discourse.group/t/animate-text/4384>\
**Category:** Phaser 3\
**Created:** [November 27, 2019, 11:31am UTC](https://phaser.discourse.group/t/animate-text/4384 "2019-11-27T11:31:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![badbrains](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/phaser.discourse.group/badbrains/32/2361_2.png) [@badbrains](https://phaser.discourse.group/u/badbrains)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 11:31am UTC](https://phaser.discourse.group/t/animate-text/4384/1 "2019-11-27T11:31:20Z")

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Hi!

I would like to animate text like this example for Phaser 2: [https://phaser.io/examples/v2/text/text-with-physics](https://phaser.io/examples/v2/text/text-with-physics) where you could just say game.physics.arcade.enable([text1, text2]);

I can’t find the equivalent example or functions in Phaser3. At the moment I am just using an image which says “Best time”, using code from the tutorial.

But would much prefer to use text.

```
    let particles = this.add.particles('red');

    this.#bestTimeEmitter = particles.createEmitter({
      speed: 100,
      scale: {start: 1, end: 0},
      blendMode: 'ADD'
    });

    let bti = this.physics.add.image(400, 100, 'best_time');

    bti.setVelocity(100, 200);
    bti.setBounce(1, 1);
    bti.setCollideWorldBounds(true);

    this.#bestTimeEmitter.startFollow(bti)

```

Text would be much more flexible and hopefully speed up loading too.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![badbrains](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/phaser.discourse.group/badbrains/32/2361_2.png) [@badbrains](https://phaser.discourse.group/u/badbrains)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 12:06pm UTC](https://phaser.discourse.group/t/animate-text/4384/2 "2019-11-27T12:06:24Z")

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OK I think I figured it out, by adding text to a container:

```
   let btt = this.add.text(0, 0, 'Best time!', {
      fontSize: '32px',
      fill: '#FF0000'
    }).setOrigin(0.5);

    let container = this.add.container(400, 100, [btt]);

    this.physics.world.enableBody(container);

    container.body.setVelocity(100, 200);
    container.body.setBounce(1, 1);
    container.body.setCollideWorldBounds(true);
```