Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, Third Edition

Text Attributes

Table 33-10 lists the attributes for the text widget. The table uses the resource name, which has capitals at internal word boundaries. In Tcl commands, the attributes are specified with a dash and all lowercase:

Table 33-10. Text attribute resource names.

background	Background color (also bg).
borderWidth	Extra space around the edge of the text.
cursor	Cursor to display when mouse is over the widget.
exportSelection	If true, selected text is exported to the selection.
font	Default font for the text.
foreground	Foreground color (also fg).
height	Height, in text lines.
highlightBackground	Focus highlight color when widget does not have focus.
highlightColor	Color for input focus highlight border.
highlightThickness	Width of highlight border.
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