Tk - Scrollbar Widget

Scrollbar widget is a scrolling widget that can work without a text or canvas widgets. The syntax for scrollbar widget is shown below.

scrollbar scrollbarName options

Options

The options available for the scrollbar widget are listed below in table.

Sr.No.	Syntax & Description
1	-background color Used to set background color for widget.
2	-borderwidth width Used to draw with border in 3D effects.
3	-orien orientation Sets the orientation for widget. It can be either horizontal or vertical.
4	-relief condition Sets the 3D relief for this widget. The condition may be raised, sunken, flat, ridge, solid, or groove.
5	-command command Command links view to scrollbar widget.

A simple example for scrollbar widget is shown below −

#!/usr/bin/wish

grid [tk::listbox .l -yscrollcommand ".s1 set" -xscrollcommand ".s2 set" -height 5 -width
   20] -column 0 -row 0 -sticky nwes
grid [ttk::scrollbar .s1 -command ".l yview" -orient vertical -background yellow
   -borderwidth 5 -relief ridge] -column 1 -row 0 -sticky ns
grid [ttk::scrollbar .s2 -command ".l xview" -orient horizontal -background yellow
   -borderwidth 5 -relief ridge] -column 0 -row 1 -sticky ew

for {set index 0} {$index<100} {incr index} {
   .l insert end "A long line of text for testing scrollbar."
}

When we run the above program, we will get the following output −

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