Python Tkinter Message (original) (raw)

Last Updated : 12 Jul, 2025

Python offers multiple options for developing a GUI (Graphical User Interface). Out of all the GUI methods, Tkinter is the most commonly used method. It is a standard Python interface to the Tk GUI toolkit shipped with Python. Python with Tkinter is the fastest and easiest way to create GUI applications. Creating a GUI using Tkinter is an easy task.Note: For more information, refer to Python GUI – tkinter

Message widget

The Message widget is used to show the message to the user regarding the behavior of the python application. The message text contains more than one line.**Syntax:**The syntax to use the message is given below.

w = Message( master, options)

Parameters:

• master: This parameter is used to represents the parent window.
• options:There are many options which are available and they can be used as key-value pairs separated by commas.

**Options:**Following are commonly used Option can be used with this widget :-

• anchor: This option is used to decide the exact position of the text within the space .Its default value is CENTER.
• bg: This option used to represent the normal background color.
• bitmap: This option used to display a monochrome image.
• bd: This option used to represent the size of the border and the default value is 2 pixels.
• cursor: By using this option, the mouse cursor will change to that pattern when it is over type.
• font: This option used to represent the font used for the text.
• fg: This option used to represent the color used to render the text.
• height: This option used to represent the number of lines of text on the message.
• image: This option used to display a graphic image on the widget.
• justify: This option used to control how the text is justified: CENTER, LEFT, or RIGHT.
• padx: This option used to represent how much space to leave to the left and right of the widget and text. It's default value is 1 pixel.
• pady: This option used to represent how much space to leave above and below the widget. It's default value is 1 pixel.
• relief: The type of the border of the widget. It's default value is set to FLAT.
• text: This option used use newlines ("\n") to display multiple lines of text.
• variable: This option used to represents the associated variable that tracks the state of the widget.
• width: This option used to represents the width of the widget. and also represented in the number of characters that are represented in the form of texts.
• wraplength: This option will be broken text into the number of pieces.

Example:

Python3 `

from tkinter import *

root = Tk() root.geometry("300x200")

w = Label(root, text ='GeeksForGeeks', font = "50") w.pack()

msg = Message( root, text = "A computer science portal for geeks")

msg.pack()

root.mainloop()

`

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