Deselecting from a listbox in Tkinter

Question

I'm just wondering how I can deselect from a list box in thinter. Whenever I click on something in a list box, it gets highlighted and it gets underlined, but when I click off of the screen towards the side, the list box selection stays highlighted. Even when I click a button, the selection still stays underlined. For ex: in the example code below, I can't click off of the list box selection after clicking on one of them. ``` from tkinter import * def Add(): listbox.insert(END, textVar.get()) root = Tk() textVar = StringVar() entry = Entry(root, textvariable = textVar) add = Button(root, text="add", command = Add) frame = Frame(root, height=100, width=100, bg="blue") listbox = Listbox(root, height=5) add.grid(row=0, column=0, sticky=W) entry.grid(row=0, column=1, sticky=E) listbox.grid(row=1, column=0) frame.grid(row=1, column=1) root.mainloop() ```

Accepted Answer

Yes, that's the normal behavior of the listbox. If you want to change that you could call the clear function every time the listbox left focus:

```
listbox.bind('<FocusOut>', lambda e: listbox.selection_clear(0, END))
```

Deselecting from a listbox in Tkinter

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