---
title: "Create Nine Slice"
description: "Demonstrates how to create and display Nine Slice Game Objects using textures from an atlas, allowing for resizable UI elements with preserved corners."
phaser: "4.1.0"
size: "800x600"
files: 1
url: https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/nine%20slice/view/create-nine-slice
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

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# Create Nine Slice

Demonstrates how to create and display Nine Slice Game Objects using textures from an atlas, allowing for resizable UI elements with preserved corners.

A Phaser 4.1.0 example in [Game Objects / Nine Slice](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/nine%20slice.md). It runs at 800 × 600, and loads its assets from https://cdn.phaserfiles.com/v410. See it running, with its code, at https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/nine%20slice/view/create-nine-slice.

To run it, load Phaser 4.1.0 (`https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/phaser@4.1.0/dist/phaser.min.js`), then the file, on a page with a `<div id="game-container">`.

## Code

### create nine slice.js

```js
class Example extends Phaser.Scene
{
    constructor ()
    {
        super();
    }

    preload ()
    {
        this.load.setBaseURL('https://cdn.phaserfiles.com/v410');
        this.load.atlas('buttons', 'assets/ui/nine-slice.png', 'assets/ui/nine-slice.json');
    }

    create ()
    {
        this.add.nineslice(400, 300, 'buttons', 'blue-box', 600, 400, 16, 16, 32, 16);

        this.add.nineslice(400, 300, 'buttons', 'button-bg', 400, 110, 64, 64);
    }
}

const config = {
    scale: { mode: Phaser.Scale.FIT },
    type: Phaser.AUTO,
    width: 800,
    height: 600,
    backgroundColor: '#000000',
    parent: 'game-container',
    scene: Example
};

const game = new Phaser.Game(config);
```

## More in Nine Slice

- [3 Slice Button](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/nine%20slice/view/3-slice-button.md): Demonstrates using Nine Slice Game Objects to create UI buttons that can be dynamically resized horizontally while preserving their edge graphics.
- [Interactive Nine Slice Button](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/nine%20slice/view/interactive-button.md): Demonstrates how to enable interactivity on a NineSlice Game Object and handle pointer events to trigger actions like repositioning.
- [Nine Slice Panel](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/nine%20slice/view/nine-slice-panel.md): Demonstrates creating a Nine Slice Game Object and dynamically resizing its width and height using a tween. It shows how the corners and edges are preserved while the center scales, and how to update text word wrapping to match the changing panel dimensions.
- [Nine Slice Progress Bar](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/nine%20slice/view/progress-bar.md): Demonstrates how to create an animated progress bar using Nine Slice game objects by tweening the width property while preserving texture corners.
- [Nine Slice Stress Test](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/nine%20slice/view/stress-test.md): A performance demonstration rendering 256 Nine Slice Game Objects simultaneously, featuring randomized dimensions and real-time width and height tweening.
- [Nine Slice vs Scaling](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/nine%20slice/view/nine-slice-vs-scaling.md): A visual comparison showing how a Nine Slice object preserves its border and corner proportions when resized, compared to the distortion of a standard scaled Image.
- [Nine Slice with Texture Atlas](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/nine%20slice/view/texture-packer-nine-slice.md): Demonstrates how to create Nine Slice Game Objects using frames loaded from a Texture Packer atlas.

---

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