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bar directly.</p>215<p>The text widget and scrollbar are packed together in a <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Frame</span></code>, and the216methods of the <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Grid</span></code> and <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Pack</span></code> geometry managers are acquired217from the <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Frame</span></code> object. This allows the <a class="reference internal" href="#tkinter.scrolledtext.ScrolledText" title="tkinter.scrolledtext.ScrolledText"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ScrolledText</span></code></a> widget to218be used directly to achieve most normal geometry management behavior.</p>219<p>Should more specific control be necessary, the following attributes are220available:</p>221<dl class="py class">222<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="tkinter.scrolledtext.ScrolledText">223<em class="property"><span class="k"><span class="pre">class</span></span><span class="w"> </span></em><span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">tkinter.scrolledtext.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">ScrolledText</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">master</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">None</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="o"><span class="pre">**</span></span><span class="n"><span class="pre">kw</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#tkinter.scrolledtext.ScrolledText" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>224<dd><dl class="py attribute">225<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="tkinter.scrolledtext.ScrolledText.frame">226<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">frame</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#tkinter.scrolledtext.ScrolledText.frame" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>227<dd><p>The frame which surrounds the text and scroll bar widgets.</p>228</dd></dl>229 230<dl class="py attribute">231<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="tkinter.scrolledtext.ScrolledText.vbar">232<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">vbar</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#tkinter.scrolledtext.ScrolledText.vbar" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>233<dd><p>The scroll bar widget.</p>234</dd></dl>235 236</dd></dl>237 238</section>239 240 241 <div class="clearer"></div>242 </div>243 </div>244 </div>245 <div class="sphinxsidebar" role="navigation" aria-label="Main">246 <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper">247 <div>248 <h4>Previous topic</h4>249 <p class="topless"><a href="tkinter.messagebox.html"250 title="previous chapter"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tkinter.messagebox</span></code> — Tkinter message prompts</a></p>251 </div>252 <div>253 <h4>Next topic</h4>254 <p class="topless"><a href="tkinter.dnd.html"255 title="next chapter"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tkinter.dnd</span></code> — Drag and drop support</a></p>256 </div>257 <script>258 document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {259 const title = document.querySelector('meta[property="og:title"]').content;260 const elements = document.querySelectorAll('.improvepage');261 const pageurl = window.location.href.split('?')[0];262 elements.forEach(element => {263 const url = new URL(element.href.split('?')[0].replace("-nojs", ""));264 url.searchParams.set('pagetitle', title);265 url.searchParams.set('pageurl', pageurl);266 url.searchParams.set('pagesource', "library/tkinter.scrolledtext.rst");267 element.href = url.toString();268 });269 });270 </script>271 <div role="note" aria-label="source link">272 <h3>This page</h3>273 <ul class="this-page-menu">274 <li><a href="../bugs.html">Report a bug</a></li>275 <li><a class="improvepage" href="../improve-page-nojs.html">Improve this page</a></li>276 <li>277 <a href="https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Doc/library/tkinter.scrolledtext.rst?plain=1"278 rel="nofollow">Show source279 </a>280 </li>281 282 </ul>283 </div>284 </div>285<div id="sidebarbutton" title="Collapse sidebar">286<span>«</span>287</div>288 289 </div>290 <div class="clearer"></div>291 </div> 292 <div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="Related">293 <h3>Navigation</h3>294 <ul>295 <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px">296 <a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index"297 >index</a></li>298 <li class="right" >299 <a href="../py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index"300 >modules</a> |</li>301 <li class="right" >302 <a href="tkinter.dnd.html" title="tkinter.dnd — Drag and drop support"303 >next</a> |</li>304 <li class="right" >305 <a href="tkinter.messagebox.html" title="tkinter.messagebox — Tkinter message prompts"306 >previous</a> |</li>307 308 <li><img src="../_static/py.svg" alt="Python logo" style="vertical-align: middle; 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