textual/docs/widgets/button.md

Button

A simple button widget which can be pressed using a mouse click or by pressing ++return++ when it has focus.

• Focusable
• Container

Example

The example below shows each button variant, and its disabled equivalent. Clicking any of the non-disabled buttons in the example app below will result the app exiting and the details of the selected button being printed to the console.

=== "Output"

```{.textual path="docs/examples/widgets/button.py"}
```

=== "button.py"

```python
--8<-- "docs/examples/widgets/button.py"
```

=== "button.css"

```css
--8<-- "docs/examples/widgets/button.css"
```

Reactive Attributes

Name	Type	Default	Description
label	str	""	The text that appears inside the button.
variant	str	"default"	Semantic styling variant. One of default, primary, success, warning, error.
disabled	bool	False	Whether the button is disabled or not. Disabled buttons cannot be focused or clicked, and are styled in a way that suggests this.

Messages

Pressed

The Button.Pressed message is sent when the button is pressed.

• Bubbles

Attributes

No other attributes

Additional Notes

• The spacing between the text and the edges of a button are due to border, not padding. To create a button with zero visible padding, use the border: none; declaration.

See Also

• Button code reference