How to Create Window Titles in Python Tkinter?

Recently in a webinar, someone asked me how to create window titles in Python Tkinter and this became the topic of discussion. After doing some research and testing, I discovered the best practices for writing title tags that I will share in this tutorial with examples and screenshots.

Create Window Titles in Python Tkinter

Let us see how to create window titles and some customizations in Python Tkinter.

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1. Tkinter title

Python Tkinter ‘title‘ refers to the name provided to the window. It appears on the top of the window & mostly found on the top left or center of the screen.

from tkinter import *

ws = Tk()
ws.title('PythonGuides')
ws.geometry('400x300')

ws.mainloop()

You can look at the output in the screenshot below.

PythonGuides is displayed as the title of the screen. If you are windows you will see it on the left side of the window.

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2. Font Size

Python Tkinter ‘Title’ does not allow to change the font size of the window. The sole purpose of ‘title’ is to provide a name or short description of the window.

3. Title Bar Color

The title function offers one function which is to set a string on the top of the window. There is no official documentation to support the color implementation on the title bar.

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4. Title Center

There is no official way of setting the title of the application window to the center. But if you are a Linux or mac os user then text will automatically appear in the center of the title bar. Windows users can apply some extra space to bring text to the center.

5. Title Color

Python tkinter title bar does not provide any option to set the color. Neither foreground color nor background color can be added.

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6. Titles for Multiple Windows

If your application uses multiple windows (e.g., with Toplevel), you can set a unique title for each window.

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()
root.title("Main Window")

new_window = tk.Toplevel(root)
new_window.title("Secondary Window")

root.mainloop()

You can look at the output in the screenshot below.

As you can see in the above screenshot we can create multiple windows with different titles.

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7. Dynamic Window Titles

You can dynamically update the window title during runtime based on user actions or application state.

import tkinter as tk

def update_title():
    root.title("Updated Title")

root = tk.Tk()
root.title("Initial Title")

button = tk.Button(root, text="Change Title", command=update_title)
button.pack()

root.mainloop()

You can look at the output in the screenshot below.

As you can see when the button is pressed the title changes.

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8. Title Languages

If your application supports multiple languages, dynamically set the window title based on the user’s language preference.

import tkinter as tk

language = "es"  # Example: Spanish
titles = {"en": "Welcome", "es": "Bienvenido"}

root = tk.Tk()
root.title(titles.get(language, "Welcome"))  # Default to English
root.mainloop()

9. Remove Title

You can remove the window title bar (and borders) using the overrideredirect() method.

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()
root.overrideredirect(True)  # Removes title bar and borders
root.geometry("300x200")
root.mainloop()

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Conclusion

In this tutorial, I have helped to learn how to create window titles in Python Tkinter. I discussed creating window titles and some customizations like font size, bar color, title center, title color, title for multiple windows, dynamic window titles, title languages, and removing titles.

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Bijay Kumar

I am Bijay Kumar, a Microsoft MVP in SharePoint. Apart from SharePoint, I started working on Python, Machine learning, and artificial intelligence for the last 5 years. During this time I got expertise in various Python libraries also like Tkinter, Pandas, NumPy, Turtle, Django, Matplotlib, Tensorflow, Scipy, Scikit-Learn, etc… for various clients in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, etc. Check out my profile.

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