Tkinter button color

Question

When I create a button like this in tkinter:

self.submition_button=Button(self.root, text='Submit', 
            font='Times 12 bold italic', command=self.onSubmition, bg='blue')

the button isn't blue.

Why isn't it blue, and what can I do to make it blue?

do you use `tkinter.Button` or `ttk.Button` ? They work differently. What system do you use? On some systems it may not work. — furas, Jan 03 '20 at 02:09

LFMekz · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-03T11:45:23.147

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Are you using tkinter.Button or are you really using ttk.Button? You'll know which one your using based on what you imported in the top of code

regular tkinter widgets importing

import tkinter

typical TTK widgets importing

from tkinter import ttk

Because TTK is more modern version of the library it's styling system is different. So setting flag options on it wont work. instead you have to use style theme.

See this reply.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/44416355/8661716

edited Jan 03 '20 at 11:45

answered Jan 03 '20 at 02:08

LFMekz

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I used tkinter.Button – Jan 03 '20 at 18:04
Maybe because the button is too small so the background color is covered by the text? – Jan 03 '20 at 18:12

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 11 '20 at 07:16

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This is the code for a blue button, check it :

from tkinter import *

#create a window
root =Tk()

button=Button(root, text='Submit',  font='Times 12 bold italic', bg='blue', activebackground="blue")
button.pack()
root.mainloop()

edited Aug 11 '20 at 07:16

Suraj Rao

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answered Aug 11 '20 at 07:06

Bogdan Prisacaru

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Tkinter button color

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