What is LabelFrame?

The LabelFrame widget is much similar to Frame widget available in Tkinter. It is another variant of the frame widget. By default, it draws a border around the child widget it holds. The LabelWidget can also be used to display a text. 

The LabelFrame widget is useful when you want to group similar widgets together like. RadioButton, CheckButton, etc..

Example

The following python script creates a one LabelFrame that contains two check buttons, No action is associated with check button, Here LabelFrame simply draws a border around all widget it holds that gives group look, And at the top title is displayed which is the name of this group. 

from tkinter import *

# Top level window 
window = Tk()

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

# Create label frame
checkGroup = LabelFrame(window, text = "Check Group", padx=10, pady=10)
checkGroup.pack()

# CheckButton 1
checkbutton1 = Checkbutton(checkGroup, text="Check One")
checkbutton1.pack()

# CheckButton 2
checkbutton2 = Checkbutton(checkGroup, text="Check Two")
checkbutton2.pack()

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

This two lines creates LabelFrame, The first parameter of the LabelFrame is the name of the parent window or widget. Here it is “window”. The second parameter is text which is used to set some title for this group. Third and Fourth parameter is to add padding around the widget. You can leave it if you don’t need. And the second line checkGroup.pack() is geometry manager that packs widgets into rows or columns.

# Create label frame
checkGroup = LabelFrame(window, text = "Check Group", padx=10, pady=10)
checkGroup.pack()

This snippet creates two check buttons which are added to our checkGroup. Here checkGroup is passed as parent widget. 

# CheckButton 1
checkbutton1 = Checkbutton(checkGroup, text="Check One")
checkbutton1.pack()

# CheckButton 2
checkbutton2 = Checkbutton(checkGroup, text="Check Two")
checkbutton2.pack()

See how to use CheckButton – Tkinter checkbutton widget

Some LabelFrame properties