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Maicon Erick
Maicon Erick

Reputation: 127

No way to color the border of a Tkinter Button?

It works with some other widgets, but not with Buttons.

from Tkinter import *
root = Tk()
root.geometry("600x300+400+50")

btn_up = Button(root, text='Go UP')
btn_up.config(highlightbackground="red", highlightcolor="red", highlightthickness=10, relief=SOLID)
btn_up.pack()

root.mainloop()

Python 2.7 - Windows 10

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4593

Answers (1)

j_4321
j_4321

Reputation: 16169

I am using linux and when I run your code, I get a button with a thick red border, so it looks like that the default Windows theme does not support highlightthickness while the default linux theme does.

screenshot

If you want to change the border color, it is possible with some ttk themes like 'clam':

from Tkinter import *
import ttk
root = Tk()

style = ttk.Style(root)
style.theme_use('clam')
style.configure('my.TButton', bordercolor="red")

ttk_button = ttk.Button(root, text='Go UP', style='my.TButton')
ttk_button.pack()

root.mainloop()

screenshot clam

However, changing the borderwidth, with style.configure('my.TButton', borderwidth=10) does not increase the width of the red border as expected.

Upvotes: 4

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