Tkinter Button activebackground Option
Tkinter Button activebackground option sets the background color of button when the button is pressed and under the cursor.
In this tutorial, we will learn how to use activebackground option of Button() class with examples.
Different Types of Color Values
The value that has to be passed for this option is a string specifying the proportion of red, green, and blue in hexadecimal digits. You can also pass a standard color like red, green, black, white, etc.
Following are the different types of color values that you can provide to activebackground option.
#4 bits per color tkinter.Button(window_main, activebackground='#rgb') #f00, #8af #8 bits per color tkinter.Button(window_main, activebackground='#rrggbb') #ff853a #12 bits per color tkinter.Button(window_main, activebackground='#rrrgggbbb') #ff8aba53a #standard color names tkinter.Button(window_main, activebackground='red') #red, green, yellow, blue
Example 1 – Tkinter Button – Change Active Background Color
In the following program, we will change the active background color of Tkinter Button.
example.py – Python Program
import tkinter
window_main = tkinter.Tk(className='Tkinter - TutorialKart', )
window_main.geometry("400x200")
button_submit = tkinter.Button(window_main, text ="Submit", activebackground='#78d6ff')
button_submit.pack()
window_main.mainloop() Output
When you run the application, you will see the following window.
During the click on button, you will see the active background color set.
Conclusion
In this Python Tutorial, we learned about Tkinter Button option “activebackground” with the help of example Python programs.