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Nikith Clan
Nikith Clan

Reputation: 175

How to make tkinter::pack() place label on top left corner in below program?

I am using pack() to align label and buttons on tkinter.The following code:

from tkinter import *
wind=Tk()
wind.geometry('450x450')
l1=Label(wind,text='Did you mean:')
l1.pack(side=LEFT)
b1=Button(wind,text='Button1',width=450)
b1.pack()
b2=Button(wind,text='Button2',width=450)
b2.pack()
wind.mainloop()

gives output:1

I tried removing the side=LEFT from l1.pack(side=LEFT) it gives: 2.

For me expected output is label l1 on top left corner and the buttons stacked below it.

Upvotes: 9

Views: 53607

Answers (1)

Bryan Oakley
Bryan Oakley

Reputation: 385840

pack works with a box model, aligning widgets along one side of the empty space in a container. Thus, to put something along the top, you need to use side="top" (or side=TOP if you prefer using a named constant), and it needs to come before other widgets.

In your specific case, to get the widget aligned at the top, you would do the following:

l1.pack(side=TOP)

By default this will center the widget along the top edge. If you also want the label aligned to the left, you would use the anchor option, which takes points of a compass ("n", "s", "e", "w", "nw", etc).

Thus, to place the widget at the top, and anchor it to the top-left corner you would do something like this:

l1.pack(side=TOP, anchor=NW)

Upvotes: 25

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