How to place a button at any position in Tkinter?

Last Updated : 24 Jan, 2021

Prerequisite: Creating a button in Tkinter

Tkinter is the most commonly used library for developing GUI (Graphical User Interface) in Python. It is a standard Python interface to the Tk GUI toolkit shipped with Python. Python offers multiple options for developing a GUI (Graphical User Interface). Out of all the GUI methods, tkinter is the most commonly used method. It is a standard Python interface to the Tk GUI toolkit shipped with Python. Python with tkinter is the fastest and easiest way to create GUI applications. Creating a GUI using tkinter is an easy task.

Approach:

Import the tkinter module
Create the main window
Add a button to the window.
Place the button.

The button in the tkinter module can be placed or move to any position in two ways:

By using the place() method.
And by using the pack() method.

Method 1: Using the place() method

This method is used to place a button at an absolute defined position.

Syntax : button1.place(x=some_value, y=some_value)

Parameters :

x : It defines the x-coordinate of the button’s position.

y : It defines the y-coordinate of the button’s position.

Below is the implementation of the approach shown above:

Python3

# Importing tkinter module  
from tkinter import *        
  
# Creating a tkinter window 
root = Tk()  
  
# Initialize tkinter window with dimensions 300 x 250              
root.geometry('300x250')      
  
# Creating a Button 
btn = Button(root, text = 'Click me !', command = root.destroy) 
  
# Set the position of button to coordinate (100, 20) 
btn.place(x=100, y=20) 
  
root.mainloop()

Output:

Method 2: Using the pack() method

This method is used to place a button at a relative position.

Syntax : button1.pack(side=some_side, padx=some_value, pady=some_value)

Parameters :

side : It defines the side where the button will be placed.

padx : It defines the padding on x-axis from the defined side.

pady : It defines the padding on y-axis from tht defines side.

Below is the implementation of the approach shown above:

Python3

# Importing tkinter module  
from tkinter import *        
  
# Creating a tkinter window 
root = Tk()  
  
# Initialize tkinter window with dimensions 300 x 250              
root.geometry('300x250')      
  
# Creating a Button 
btn = Button(root, text = 'Click me !', command = root.destroy) 
  
# Set a relative position of button 
btn.pack(side=RIGHT, padx=15, pady=20) 
  
root.mainloop()