Python Tkinter LabelFrame Widget

Hello dear readers! welcome back to another section of our tutorial on Python. In this tutorial post, we are going to be discussing about the Tkinter LabelFrame Widget.

The Python Tkinter LabelFrame is a simple container widget. Its primary purpose is to act as a spacer or even as a container for complex Windows layouts.

This widget has a feature of a frame and the ability to display a label.

Syntax

The following below is the syntax for create this widget -

w = LabelFrame ( master, option, ... )

Parameter Details

• master - This represents the parent window.

• options - Following below is the list of commonly used options for this widget. These options can be used as key-value pairs that are separated by commas.

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Sr.No.	Option & Description
1	bg The normal background color displayed behind the label and indicator.
2	bd The size of the border around the indicator. Default is 2 pixels.
3	cursor If you set this option to a cursor name (arrow, dot etc.), the mouse cursor will change to that pattern when it is over the checkbutton.
4	font The vertical dimension of the new frame.
5	height The vertical dimension of the new frame.
6	labelAnchor Specifies where to place the label.
7	highlightbackground Color of the focus highlight when the frame does not have focus.
8	highlightcolor Color shown in the focus highlight when the frame has the focus.
9	highlightthickness Thickness of the focus highlight.
10	relief With the default value, relief=FLAT, the checkbutton does not stand out from its background. You may set this option to any of the other styles
11	text Specifies a string to be displayed inside the widget.
12	width Specifies the desired width for the window.

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Example

Following is a simple example -

from Tkinter import *

root = Tk()

labelframe = LabelFrame(root, text="This is a LabelFrame")
labelframe.pack(fill="both", expand="yes")
 
left = Label(labelframe, text="Inside the LabelFrame")
left.pack()
 
root.mainloop()

Output

When the above code is executed, it will produce the following result -

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Alright guys! This is where we are rounding up for this tutorial post. In our next tutorial, we are going to be discussing about the Python Tkinter tkMessageBox Widget.

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