How to add placeholder to an Entry in tkinter?

Question

I have created a login window in tkinter which has two Entry field, first one is Username and second one is Password.
code

from tkinter import *  ui = Tk()  e1 = Entry(ui) #i need a placeholder "Username" in the above entry field e1.pack()  ui.mainloop() 

I want a placeholder called "Username" in the Entry, but if you click inside the entry box, the text should disappear.

Answer 1

You can create a class that inherits from Entry like below:

import tkinter as tk  class EntryWithPlaceholder(tk.Entry):     def __init__(self, master=None, placeholder="PLACEHOLDER", color='grey'):         super().__init__(master)          self.placeholder = placeholder         self.placeholder_color = color         self.default_fg_color = self['fg']          self.bind("<FocusIn>", self.foc_in)         self.bind("<FocusOut>", self.foc_out)          self.put_placeholder()      def put_placeholder(self):         self.insert(0, self.placeholder)         self['fg'] = self.placeholder_color      def foc_in(self, *args):         if self['fg'] == self.placeholder_color:             self.delete('0', 'end')             self['fg'] = self.default_fg_color      def foc_out(self, *args):         if not self.get():             self.put_placeholder()  if __name__ == "__main__":      root = tk.Tk()      username = EntryWithPlaceholder(root, "username")     password = EntryWithPlaceholder(root, "password", 'blue')     username.pack()     password.pack()       root.mainloop() 

Answer 2

You need to set a default value for this entry. Like this:

from tkinter import *  ui = Tk()  e1 = Entry(ui) e1.insert(0, 'username') e1.pack()  ui.mainloop() 

Then if you want to delete the content when you click the entry, then you have to bind a mouse click event with an event handler method to update content of this entry. Here is a link for you.