Listbox Tkinter | Python 3

In this tutorial, we are going to see how to use Listbox in Tkinter. The Listbox widget allows to show a list of elements from which a user can select a number of elements.
 

 
 

Syntax:

Here is the syntax to create this widget:

liste = Listbox ( master, option = value, ... )

 

Parameters:

• master : This represents the parent window.
• options : See below for a list of the most commonly used options for this widget. These options can be used as comma separated key-value pairs.

 

Example:

from tkinter import *

gui = Tk()

list = Listbox(gui)
list.insert(1, "Blue")
list.insert(2, "Red")
list.insert(3, "Green")
list.insert(4, "Yellow")
list.insert(5, "Orange")
list.insert(6, "Black")

liste.pack()
gui.mainloop()

Output:

 
 

Listbox widget options

Option	Description
bd	Border width in pixels. The default value is 2.
bg	Background color.
fg	Foreground color (text).
font	Text font to be used for the list.
height	Number of lines (not pixels!) displayed in the list box. The default value is 10.
highlightcolor	The color of the focus when the widget has the focus.
selectmode	Defines the number of items that can be selected and how the items are selected: BROWSE You can only select one row in the list. If you click on an item and then drag to another row, the selection will follow the mouse. This is the default value. SINGLE You can only select one line and you cannot drag the mouse. MULTIPLE You can select any number of rows at a time. Clicking on a row allows you to choose whether it is selected or not. EXTENDED You can select any group of adjacent rows at once by clicking on the first row and dragging to the last row.
relief	Relief indicates the type of border. Some of the values are SUNKEN, RAISED, GROOVE and RIDGE.
width	The width of the widget in characters. The default value is 20.
xscrollcommand	If you want to allow the user to scroll horizontally, you can link your listbox widget to a horizontal scroll bar.
yscrollcommand	If you want to allow the user to scroll vertically, you can link your listbox widget to a vertical scroll bar.

 
 

Methods:

Here are the commonly used methods for this widget:

Method	Description
activate(index)	Selects the row specified by the given index.
curselection()	Returns a tuple containing the row numbers of the selected item(s), counting from 0. If nothing is selected, returns an empty tuple.
delete(first, last=None)	Deletes the rows whose indices are in the range [first, last]. If the second argument is omitted, the row with index first is deleted.
get(first, last=None)	Returns a tuple containing the text of rows whose indices are in the range [first, last], last is included. If the second argument is omitted, returns the text of the row closest to the first.
index(i)	Set the visible part of the list so that the row containing the index i is at the top of the widget.
insert(index, *elements)	Insert one or more new rows in the list before the row specified by index. Use END as the first argument if you want to add new rows at the end of the list.
nearest(y)	Returns the index of the visible row closest to the y coordinate.
see(index)	Adjust the position of the list so that the row referenced by the index is visible.
size()	Returns the number of rows in the list.

 
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