Change Tkinter Button Background Color - Python Examples

Python Tkinter Button Background Color

You can change the background color of a Tkinter Button by setting the bg property of Tkinter Button with a color string or HEX value.

Assign any standard color or rgb hex value to the bg property as shown below.

button = Button(tkWindow, bg='blue')
button = Button(tkWindow, bg='black')
button = Button(tkWindow, bg='white')
button = Button(tkWindow, bg='red')
#hex values
button = Button(tkWindow, bg='#54FA9B')
button = Button(tkWindow, bg='#A877BA')

The default color of Tkinter Button is grey. In this tutorial, we will learn how to change the color of Tkinter Button.

Python Tkinter Button Color

Examples

1. Set Tkinter Button color to blue

In this example, we have set the Button's background color to blue by assigning named property bg in Button() class to blue.

Python Program

from tkinter import *   

tkWindow = Tk()  
tkWindow.geometry('400x150')  
tkWindow.title('Button Background Example')
  
button = Button(tkWindow, text = 'Submit', bg='blue', fg='white')  
button.pack()  
  
tkWindow.mainloop()

Output

2. Set Tkinter Button background color to black

In this example, we have set the background color of the button to black with bg='black'.

Python Program

from tkinter import *   

tkWindow = Tk()  
tkWindow.geometry('400x150')  
tkWindow.title('Button Background Example')
  
button = Button(tkWindow, text = 'Submit', bg='black', fg='white')  
button.pack()  
  
tkWindow.mainloop()

Output

3. Set Tkinter Button background color to Hex color

You can also assign any RGB equivalent hex color to the bg property.

In this example, we assigned bg='#ffb3fe'.

Python Program

from tkinter import *   

tkWindow = Tk()  
tkWindow.geometry('400x150')  
tkWindow.title('Button Background Example')
  
button = Button(tkWindow, text = 'Submit', bg='#ffb3fe')  
button.pack()  
  
tkWindow.mainloop()

Output

Summary

In this tutorial of Python Examples, we learned to set the background color of Tkinter button.

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