What is Label Widget?

The label is the Tkinter widget class and it is used to display text and images. Labels are widgets that the user does not manipulate/interact with it. It is only used to display some information or values.

Example

The following Python script creates a window containing one label widget with text “Hello Tkinter”.

You need to write following code in any text editor and then save it with .py extension. To execute the application type py LabelExample.py command in terminal.

from tkinter import *

window = Tk()

window.title("Studyfied.com")
window.geometry('350x200')

label = Label(window, text="Hello Tkinter", font=("Arial Bold", 16))
label.grid(column=0, row=0)

window.mainloop()

Output

The above code produces the following output in windows operating system.

Explanation

Following line creates a Tkinter window

from tkinter import *

window = Tk()

window.title("Studyfied.com")
window.geometry('350x200')

See explanation of Tkinter window – Tkinter top level window

The following block of code creates a label widget.

label = Label(window, text="Hello Tkinter", font=("Arial Bold", 16))
label.grid(column=0, row=0)

Properties

• window – The container window.
• text – Text to be displayed on the label widget.
• font – Font family and size for text on the label.

Grid method sets the position of the label on parent form/widget.

Some label properties