Tkinter – Add separator in Menu

Add separator in Menu in Tkinter

To add a separator line in Menu in Tkinter, call add_separator() method on the Menu object.

Menu.add_separator()

In this tutorial, you will learn how to add a separator in the Menu in Tkinter, as shown in the following example menu.

Menu1          # Menu1 is a menu in menu bar
  Item1         # item under Menu1
  Item2         # item under Menu1
 ⎯⎯⎯⎯        # separator
  Item3         # item under Menu1

Example

In this example, we shall create a window, create a menu bar, create a menu, say Menu1, then add some items to this Menu1 menu. In this menu, we add a separator after the first two elements, to visually separate the first two items from the next items.

Program

import tkinter as tk

# Create the main window
window = tk.Tk()
window.title("PythonExamples.org")
window.geometry("300x200")

# Create the menu bar
menu_bar = tk.Menu(window)

# Create the menu
menu_1 = tk.Menu(menu_bar, tearoff=0)
menu_1.add_command(label="Item1")
menu_1.add_command(label="Item2")
menu_1.add_separator()
menu_1.add_command(label="Item3", command=window.quit)

# Add the MyMenu to the menu bar
menu_bar.add_cascade(label="Menu1", menu=menu_1)

# Attach the menu bar to the main window
window.config(menu=menu_bar)

# Start the Tkinter event loop
window.mainloop()

Output

Run on MacOS.

Summary

In this Python Tkinter tutorial, we learned how to add a separator in the Menu using Tkinter, with the help of examples.