Tk - Text Widget

Tk text widget is a general purpose editable text widget with features for multiple options. The syntax for text widget is shown below −

text textName options

Options

The options available for the text widget are listed below in table −

Sr.No.	Syntax & Description
1	-background color Used to set background color for widget.
2	-borderwidth width Used to draw with border in 3D effects.
3	-font fontDescriptor Used to set font for widget.
4	-foreground color Used to set foreground color for widget.
5	-relief condition Sets the 3D relief for this widget. The condition may be raised, sunken, flat, ridge, solid, or groove.
6	-width number Sets the width for widget.
7	-height number Used to set height for widget.

A simple example for text widget is shown below −

#!/usr/bin/wish

grid [text .myText -background red -foreground white -relief ridge -borderwidth 8 -padx 10
   -pady 10 -font {Helvetica -18 bold} -width 20 -height 5]
.myText insert 1.0 "Hello\nWorld\n"
.myText insert end "A new line\n"
.myText tag configure para -spacing1 0.15i -spacing2 0.05i \
   -lmargin1 0.25i -lmargin2 0.2i -rmargin 0.25i
.myText tag configure hang -lmargin1 0.30i -lmargin2 0.25i
.myText tag add para 1.0 2.end
.myText tag add hang 3.0 3.end

When we run the above program, we will get the following output −

As you can see, text widgets works with the help of procedures like tag, insert, and delete. Most of the tag usages have been covered in the above example.

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