Tkinter GUI Programming by Example

grid

The grid—as the name suggests—treats the parent widget as a grid containing rows and columns of cells. If you are familiar with spreadsheet software, grid will work in the same way. The grid lines will not be visible, they are just conceptual.

To specify the position within the grid, the row and column keywords are used. These accept integer values and begin at 0, not 1. A widget placed with grid(row=0, column=0) will be to the left of a widget at grid(row=0, column=1). Underneath these would sit a widget placed at grid(row=1, column=0).

To make a widget span more than one cell, use columnspan for a horizontal size increase and rowspan for a vertical increase. So, to make our hypothetical bottom widget sit below both, the full argument ...