---
name: "image"
section: "3tcl"
platform: "linux"
package: "tk-tile"
version: "0.8.2-2.1"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/image"
---

# image(3tcl)

Define an element based on an image

## NAME

ttk\_image - Define an element based on an image

## SYNOPSIS

**style element create** *name* **image** *imageSpec* ?*options*?

## DESCRIPTION

The *image* element factory creates a new element in the current theme whose visual appearance is determined by Tk images.  *imageSpec* is a list of one or more elements. The first element is the default image name. The rest of the list is a sequence of *statespec / value* pairs specifying other images to use when the element is in a particular state or combination of states.

## OPTIONS

Valid *options* are:

- **-border** *padding*

  *padding* is a list of up to four integers, specifying the left, top, right, and bottom borders, respectively. See **IMAGE STRETCHING**, below.

- **-height** *height*

  Specifies a minimum height for the element. If less than zero, the base image's height is used as a default.

- **-padding** *padding*

  Specifies the element's interior padding.  Defaults to  *-border* if not specified.

- **-sticky** *spec*

  Specifies how the image is placed within the final parcel. *spec* contains zero or more characters "n", "s", "w", or "e".

- **-width** *width*

  Specifies a minimum width for the element. If less than zero, the base image's width is used as a default.

## IMAGE STRETCHING

If the element's allocated parcel is larger than the image,  the image will be placed in the parcel based on the **-sticky** option. If the image needs to stretch horizontally (i.e., **-sticky ew**) or vertically (**-sticky ns**), subregions of the image are replicated to fill the parcel based on the **-border** option. The **-border** divides the image into 9 regions:  four fixed corners, top and left edges (which may be tiled horizontally), left and right edges (which may be tiled vertically), and the central area (which may be tiled in both directions).

## EXAMPLE

set img1 \[image create photo -file button.png\] set img2 \[image create photo -file button-pressed.png\] set img.TH  3tcl \[image create photo -file button-active.png\] style element create Button.button image \\\
     \[list $img1  pressed $img2  active $img.TH  3tcl\] \\\
    \-border {2 4} -sticky we

## SEE ALSO

[image(n)](/image/n.md), [photo(n)](/photo/n.md)

## KEYWORDS

pixmap theme, image