How to change a Tkinter window background color

Tkinter is one of the GUI modules available in Python. It comes with the Python standard library. It is used to create cross-platform desktop GUI applications. It is lightweight and easy to use compared to other GUI modules available in Python. In this answer, we'll learn to change the background color of the Tkinter window.

Syntax

#using configure

window.configure(bg="provide your color here")



#using bg property

window['bg'] = "provide your color here"



#using background property

window['background'] = "provide your color here"

We can specify the color with the color name or use the hex value.

Code example

Let's look at an example below:

# Import the Tkinter library
from tkinter import *

# Create an instance of Tkinter window
window=Tk()

# Set the size of the window
window.geometry("300x300")

# Set the window background color
window.configure(bg="red")

#Uncomment below lines to use

# set the window background color using bg or background property
# window['bg'] = "#32a2a8"
# window['background'] = "#8732a8"

# Create a label widget
label=Label(window, text="Hello from Educative !!!").pack()

window.mainloop()

Code explanation

In the above code snippet:

  • Line 5: We create an instance of the Tkinter class Tk() and assign it to the variable window.

  • Line 8: We set the size of the window as 300x300 px using the geometry method.

  • Line 11: We set the background color of the window as red by passing red as value to the bg attribute in the configure method.

  • Line 20: We create a label using the Label() widget.

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