How to center the Tkinter label

Tkinter is Python's GUI module that comes with the Python standard library. It is used to create cross-platform desktop GUI applications. It's a lightweight and is easy to use to create GUI applications, as compared to other modules available in Python. In this answer, we'll learn how to center the Tkinter label widget.

Syntax

label.place(relx=0.5, rely=0.5, anchor=CENTER)

Code example

# Import the Tkinter library
from tkinter import *

# Create an instance of Tkinter window
window = Tk()

# Set the size of the window
window.geometry("300x300")

# Create a label widget
label = Label(window, text = "Hello from Educative !!!")

# Center the label widget
label.place(relx = 0.5, rely = 0.5, anchor = CENTER)

window.mainloop()
Centering the Tkinter label

Note: The above program runs on the Tkinter version 8.6.

Code explanation

In the above code snippet, we have the following steps:

  • Line 5: We create an instance of Tkinter class Tk() and assign it to the variable window.

  • Line 8: We set the window size as 300x300 pixels.

  • Line 11: We create a label using the Label() widget.

  • Line 14: We place the label at the center of the window by specifying the center position of the window using relx = 0.5 and rely = 0.5 as parameters and passing CENTER as a value to the anchor parameter.

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