18.7 The Label Widget

Create a non-interactive label with the Label command.

$parentwidget->Label (options)

The standard configuration options that apply to Label are: -anchor, -background, -bg, -bitmap, -borderwidth, -bd, -cursor, -font, -foreground, -fg, -height, -highlightbackground, -highlightcolor, -highlightthickness, -image, -justify, -padx, -pady, -relief, -takefocus, -underline, -width, and -wraplength.

Other options are:

-text => 'text'

Defines the text string displayed in the label. See also -textvariable.

-textvariable => \$variable

Points to the variable containing text to be displayed in the label. Button text will change as $variable does.