How do I change the background of a Frame in Tkinter?
The root of the problem is that you are unknowingly using the Frame
class from the ttk
package rather than from the tkinter
package. The one from ttk
does not support the background option.
This is the main reason why you shouldn't do wildcard imports -- you can overwrite the definition of classes and commands.
I recommend doing imports like this:
import tkinter as tk
import ttk
Then you prefix the widgets with either tk
or ttk
:
f1 = tk.Frame(..., bg=..., fg=...)
f2 = ttk.Frame(..., style=...)
It then becomes instantly obvious which widget you are using, at the expense of just a tiny bit more typing. If you had done this, this error in your code would never have happened.
You use ttk.Frame
, bg
option does not work for it. You should create style and apply it to the frame.
from tkinter import *
from tkinter.ttk import *
root = Tk()
s = Style()
s.configure('My.TFrame', background='red')
mail1 = Frame(root, style='My.TFrame')
mail1.place(height=70, width=400, x=83, y=109)
mail1.config()
root.mainloop()