Tkinter

How to Disable/Enable Tkinter Button in Python

In this tutorial, we are going to see how to disable/enable Tkinter button in Python.

A Tkinter button has three states: active, normal, disabled.

You set the state option to “disabled” to grey out the button and make it insensitive. The button has the value “active” when the mouse is on it and the default value is “normal”.
 

 

Example 1: How to Disable Tkinter Button
from tkinter import *   

root = Tk()  
root.geometry('200x100')  

#Button 1: not clickable
btn1 = Button(root, text = "Button 1", state = DISABLED)
btn1.pack(side = LEFT)

#Button 2: clickable
btn2 = Button(root, text = "Button 2")
btn2.pack(side = RIGHT)

root.mainloop()

Output:


 
 

Example 2: How to Disable/Enable Tkinter Button

The states can be changed in the configuration method.

from tkinter import *   

def changeState():
    if (btn1['state'] == NORMAL):
        btn1['state'] = DISABLED
    else:
        btn1['state'] = NORMAL

root = Tk()  
root.geometry('300x100')  

#Button 1: not clickable
btn1 = Button(root, text = "Button 1", state = DISABLED)
btn1.pack(side = LEFT)

#Bouton 2 : clickable
btn2 = Button(root, text="Enable/Disable Btn 1", command=changeState)
btn2.pack(side = RIGHT)

root.mainloop()

Output:


 
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