Changing the size of a button widget in Tkinter

Question

I can't seem to resize a button I'm trying to make on tkinter, this is my first time using tkinter so I don't know too much, is this how it is meant to be done or is there a better or easier way? Whenever i try to run the code it says tkinter.tclerror unknown option "-height", the code I'm using is below. Thanks

from tkinter.ttk import *
...
myButton = Button(gui, text="Continue", height = 100, width = 100)
myButton.grid(row=10, column=2)

I think you are using `ttk.Button` instead of `tkinter.Button`. Did you have a line `from tkinter.ttk import *` after `from tkinter import *` in your code? — acw1668, Jul 16 '20 at 08:18
Hi, yeah I have 'from tkinter.ttk import *' just under 'from tkinter import *' — Rhys34512, Jul 16 '20 at 08:21
This way of importing modules is not recommended. Change them to `import tkinter as tk` and `import tkinter.ttk as ttk`. Then use `tk.Button(...)` instead of `Button(...)`. — acw1668, Jul 16 '20 at 08:24

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 16 '20 at 11:25

Probably you use the ttk.Button instead of tkinter.Button (ttk one doesn't have height and width parameters).

I have written an example for you.

Code:

import tkinter as tk  # Should use the tkinter module

root = tk.Tk()

original = tk.Button(root, text="Original")
original.grid(row=1, column=1)

resized = tk.Button(root, text="Resized", height=20, width=20)
resized.grid(row=2, column=1)

tk.mainloop()

GUI:

Note:

Here is a ttk.Button resizing related SO question: Changing ttk Button Height in Python

Changing the size of a button widget in Tkinter

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