# Animation Timeline: Targets

> What a clip is applied to.

Glider documentation · Animation · Web page: https://cgglider.com/docs/timeline/targets/

Sections of this page: [Anatomy](https://cgglider.com/docs/timeline.md) · [Workflows & clips](https://cgglider.com/docs/timeline/workflows.md) · [Targets](https://cgglider.com/docs/timeline/targets.md) · [Moving & resizing](https://cgglider.com/docs/timeline/timing.md) · [Channels & keyframes](https://cgglider.com/docs/timeline/channels.md) · [Animation types](https://cgglider.com/docs/timeline/types.md) · [Easing](https://cgglider.com/docs/timeline/easing.md)

| Target kind | Means |
| --- | --- |
| Scene | An entire layer — fans out to every node on it. |
| Group | The group and everything beneath it: each component moves on its own, around its own centre. |
| Group, moving as one piece | The group itself moves, turns and scales around its centre, carrying everything beneath it — nested groups ride along. Components keep their resting rotation. |
| Node | One component. |
| Text node, split | The text animates letter by letter or word by word, each piece a stagger after the one before. |

- Add a target picks what this workflow drives; one workflow can drive many.
- Each assignment has a stagger delay — “Stagger delay before this target starts” — which is how a list builds on row by row.
- Order sequences several assignments on the same target and phase; lanes can be dragged to reorder.
- An assignment can be disabled without deleting it.
- Move as one piece, under a group target, switches it from moving each component to moving the group as a whole. Use it for a container that wipes, grows or turns while its content builds on separately.
- Under a text target, Whole text / Letters / Words sets the split. Letters and words get their own delay between pieces (0.04 s by default) and an order: first to last, last to first, from the centre, from the edges, or random.
- A clip's row shows which components it drives, so a scene-level clip does not hide what it actually touches.

![Targets with a stagger.](https://cgglider.com/docs-shots/timeline-targets.png)