How can I set some text color in a tkinter text widget

Question

can someone tell me how can I change color to certain parts of a tkinter text widget. This is a simple view of my code (it's a chat so it has to display who sent the message):

T = Text(window, bg="black", fg="white", font=("bold", 12))

def addMessage(text)
    T.insert("me: ")
    T.insert(text+"\n")

addMessage("hi")

how can I set the "me: " part to be blue and the text part to stay white?

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The answer to your question can be found in standard documentation for the text widget, and there are countless examples on the internet. What specific problem are you having? — Bryan Oakley, May 10 '20 at 13:49

ErdoganOnal · Answer 1 · 2020-05-10T09:19:37.440

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Try this:

from tkinter import *
window = Tk()

T = Text(window, bg="black", fg="white", font=("bold", 12))
# Create a tag named "blue" and set the color of it to blue
T.tag_config("blue", foreground="blue")
T.grid()

def addMessage(text):
    # apply the tag while inserting
    T.insert(END, "me: ", "blue")
    T.insert(END, text+"\n")

addMessage("hi")

window.mainloop()

edited May 10 '20 at 09:19

answered May 10 '20 at 09:09

ErdoganOnal

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You can simply pass the optional `tags` argument in `T.insert()`: `T.insert(END, "me: ", "blue")`. – acw1668 May 10 '20 at 09:14
@Beyram: how is adding `, "blue"` plus one additional line of code _complicated_? I don't think it's possible to make it any simpler. – Bryan Oakley May 10 '20 at 13:50
yes but it isn't obvious, in java the gui is pretty simple and obvious, you put all the configurations in one place without creating any additional tag or something – Beyram May 13 '20 at 07:51

How can I set some text color in a tkinter text widget

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