How to create a multiline entry with tkinter?

Question

Entry widgets seem only to deal with single line text. I need a multiline entry field to type in email messages.

Anyone has any idea how to do that?

score 26 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 14 '19 at 18:14

26

You could use the Text widget:

from tkinter import *

root = Tk()
text = Text(root)
text.pack()
root.mainloop()

Or with scrolling bars using ScrolledText:

from tkinter import *
from tkinter.scrolledtext import ScrolledText

root = Tk()
ScrolledText(root).pack()
root.mainloop()

edited Jun 14 '19 at 18:14

Kijewski

answered Mar 12 '12 at 05:27

timc

12

I *highly* recommend *not* importing everything from Tkinter. IMO you should use `import Tkinter as tk; tk.Tk()...`. It makes your code more self-documenting and immune to problems caused by importing other libraries that have functions with the same name as the Tkinter widgets (for example, ttk and tk both have classes named `Button`) – Bryan Oakley Mar 12 '12 at 11:17
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@BryanOakley I completely agree and admit that my answer was done in haste. Thanks for the edit. I haven't updated the code so your comment will stand but am happy to do so if you think it's worthwhile. – timc Mar 12 '12 at 13:06
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Is there a way to use a stylable widget to achieve the same result? The `Text` Widget seems to not be available in ttk. – Zelphir Kaltstahl Aug 08 '15 at 23:13
@Zephir You can always import both, as such: `from tkinter import *, from tkinter import ttk`, since * doesn't include ttk by default. – mazunki Jan 04 '19 at 18:36

AsmitTheCoder · Answer 2 · 2021-02-07T16:32:47.823

2

Just use Text() widget.

For example:

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()
text = tk.Text(root)
text.pack()
root.mainloop()

Output:

edited Feb 07 '21 at 16:32

answered Jan 23 '21 at 05:55

AsmitTheCoder

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 17 '23 at 12:57

Check out this post. I based it on a tutorial that I found.

It might need some extra work, depending on you requirements, but it's a good start and it is based on TreeView, but allows in-place edits.

You would just need to strip out a few CustomTkinter lines if you want to work in pure Tkinter.

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