Tkinter - How to put an outline on a canvas text

The create_text method of Canvas widget in Tkinter doesn't have an attribute like "outline" or "border" to set an outline around a text object. So, to put an outline on a canvas text, you can follow the steps given below −

Steps −

Import the required libraries and create an instance of tkinter frame.
Set the size of the frame using root.geometry method.
Create a Canvas widget and set its height and width. Also, set its background color with background="white".
Next, create a text object inside the Canvas using create_text() method. Set the font and color of the text as shown in the example.
Get the bounding box (bbox) of the text item.
Use the bbox data to create a rectangle with an outline.
Finally, run the mainloop of the application window.

Example

# Import tkinter library
from tkinter import *

# Create an instance of tkinter frame or window
root = Tk()

# Set the geometry of tkinter frame
root.geometry("700x350")

# Create a Canvas
canvas = Canvas(root, background="white")
canvas.pack(expand=True)

# Create text inside the Canvas
text = canvas.create_text(175, 50, text="Text inside the Canvas", font="Calibri, 20", fill="green")

# Get the bounding box of text
bbox = canvas.bbox(text)

# Outline the canvas text
canvas.create_rectangle(bbox, outline="blue")

root.mainloop()