How to Set Default Tkinter Entry Value in Python
In this tutorial, we are going to see how to set default Tkinter entry value in Python. The Entry widget doesn’t have the specific ‘text’ option to set a default text like text = “default value”. It does have the insert() method to insert the text into the Entry widget.
How to Set Default Tkinter Entry Value in Python Using the insert() method
The insert method inserts the text at the specified position. 0 is the first character so it inserts the default text at the beginning.
import tkinter as tk gui = tk.Tk() gui.geometry("200x100") texte = tk.Entry(gui) texte.insert(0, "Default value") texte.pack(pady=20) gui.mainloop()
Output:
