Python Tkinter Text Widget

In this tutorial, we will cover the Tkinter Text widget in Python. If you want a text-editor in your desktop application then you can use the Tkinter Text widget.

• The text widget is used to provide a multiline textbox (input box) because in Tkinter single-line textbox is provided using Entry widget.

• You can use various styles and attributes with the Text widget.

• You can also use marks and tabs in the Text widget to locate the specific sections of the text.

• Media files like images and links can also be inserted in the Text Widget.

• There are some variety of applications where you need multiline text like sending messages or taking long inputs from users, or to show editable long format text content in application, etc. use cases are fulfilled by this widget.

• Thus in order to show textual information, we will use the Text widget.

Tkinter Text Widget

The syntax of the Text widget is given below:

W = Text(master, options)   

In the above syntax, the master parameter denotes the parent window. You can use many options to configure the text editor and these options are written as comma-separated key-value pairs.

Tkinter Text Widget Options:

Following are the various options used with Text widgets:

Tkinter Text Widget Methods:

Some methods used with the text widget are given below:

Methods for Tag Handling

Mainly tags are used to configure different areas of the text widget separately. Tag is basically the name given to separate areas of the text. Some Methods for handling tags are given below:

• tag_config()

  To configure the properties of the tag this method will be used.

• tag_add(tagname, startindex, endindex)

  This method is mainly used to tag the string that is present at the specified index.

• tag_delete(tagname)

  This method is mainly used to delete the specified tag.

• tag_remove(tagname, startindex, endindex)

  To remove the tag from the specified range this method is used.

Methods for Mark Handling

In a given text widget in order to bookmark specified positions between the characters Mark is used. Some methods for the same are given below:

• index(mark)

  This method is mainly used to get the index of the mark specified.

• mark_names()

  This method is used to get all the names of the mark in the range in the text widget.

• mark_gravity(mark, gravity)

  To get the gravity of the given mark this method will be used.

• mark_set(mark, index)

  This method is used to inform the new position of the given mark.

• mark_unset(mark)

  In order to remove the given mark from the text this method will be used.

Tkinter Text Widget Example

Let us discuss a basic example for the text widget. The code snippet for the example of the text widget is given below:

import tkinter as tk 
from tkinter import *

win = Tk() 

#to specify size of window. 
win.geometry("250x170") 

# To Create a text widget and specify size. 
T = Text(win, height = 6, width = 53) 

# TO Create label 
l = Label(win, text = "Quote for the Day") 
l.config(font =("Courier", 14)) 

Quote = """Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it"""

# Create a button for the next text. 
b1 = Button(win, text = "Next", ) 

# Create an Exit button. 
b2 = Button(win, text = "Exit", 
			command = win.destroy) 

l.pack() 
T.pack() 
b1.pack() 
b2.pack() 

# Insert the Quote 
T.insert(tk.END, Quote) 

tk.mainloop() 

The output for the code snippet given above is as follows:

If you want to destroy this window just click on the Exit button.

Summary:

In this tutorial, we learned Tkinter Text widget which is used when we want to add a textarea in our application for taking large user inputs.