How to set justification on Tkinter Text box

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Question - How can I change the justification of specific lines in the `ScrolledText` widget in Tkinter? - What was the reason for my original errors? Background I am currently working on a Tkinter Text box application, and am looking for ways to change the justification of a line. Ultimately, I want to be able to change specific lines from LEFT ALIGN to RIGHT ALIGN to etc. For now, I simply need to find out how to change the justification of the entire text box, though further help will be greatly appreciated. I have been using Effbot.org to help me in my quest. Here is my code for the `ScrolledText` widget: Code ``` def mainTextFUN(self): self.maintextFrame = Frame (root, width = 50, height = 1, ) self.maintextFrame.grid(row = 1, column = 1, sticky = N, columnspan = 1, rowspan = 1) self.write = ScrolledText(self.maintextFrame, justify(CENTER), width = 100, height = 35, relief = SUNKEN, undo = True, wrap = WORD, font = ("Times New Roman",12), ) self.write.pack() ``` When I run this,…

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You're using an option named `justify`, but no such option exists for the text widget. Are you reading some documentation somewhere that says `justify` is a valid option? If so, you need to stop reading that documentation.

There is, however, a `justify` option for text tags. You can configure a tag to have a justification, then apply that tag to one or more lines. I've never used a `ScrolledText` widget so I don't know if it has the same methods as a plain text widget, but with a plain text widget you would do something like this:

```
t = tk.Text(...)
t.tag_configure("center", justify='center')
t.tag_add("center", 1.0, "end")
```

In the above example, we are creating and configuring a tag named "center". Tags can have any name that you want. For the "center" tag we're giving it a justification of "center", and then applying that tag to all the text in the widget.

You can tag individual lines by adjusting the arguments to the `tag_add` method. You can also give a list of tags when inserting text using the `insert` method.

How to set justification on Tkinter Text box

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