How to make Toplevel() widget appear above main root window?

Question

I have made a Toplevel widget but when it pops up it always appears below my root window. Is there an easy way I can make it come to the top most level when it pops up?

`Toplevel.lift` is probably what you want, just pass the root window as argument and the toplevel will be lifted above the root. — Tadhg McDonald-Jensen, Mar 16 '16 at 22:15

Tadhg McDonald-Jensen · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-22T13:50:53.037

you can use the .lift() method on a Toplevel widget:

import tkinter

root = tkinter.Tk()
root.title("root")

top = tkinter.Toplevel(root)
top.title("top")
top.lift(root)
root.mainloop()

according to this documentation you should be able to just use top.lift() to raise above all other windows but it didn't seem to work for me.

Edit: calling top.lift() without arguments does work when called during the mainloop, although since this question was specifically when starting the program that isn't very useful.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 24 '20 at 12:50

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try attributes

import tkinter

root = tkinter.Tk()
root.title("root")

top = tkinter.Toplevel(root)
top.attributes('-topmost', 'true')
top.title("top")

root.mainloop()

answered Mar 24 '20 at 12:50

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How to make Toplevel() widget appear above main root window?

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