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Asked: 2026-05-16T18:51:55+00:00

Is there any way to make the Tkinter Entry widget so that text can

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Is there any way to make the Tkinter Entry widget so that text can be highlighted and copied, but not changed?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use the state option "disabled" (all lowercase):

    Use this option to disable the Entry widget so that the user can’t
    type anything into it. Use state=tk.DISABLED to disable the widget,
    state=tk.NORMAL to allow user input again. Your program can also find
    out whether the cursor is currently over the widget by interrogating
    this option; it will have the value tk.ACTIVE when the mouse is over
    it. You can also set this option to ‘disabled’, which is like the
    tk.DISABLED state, but the contents of the widget can still be
    selected or copied.

    Old answer from 2010…

    Use the state option "readonly":

    state=
    The entry state: NORMAL, DISABLED, or “readonly” (same as DISABLED, but
    contents can still be selected and
    copied). Default is NORMAL. Note that
    if you set this to DISABLED or
    “readonly”, calls to insert and delete
    are ignored. (state/State)

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