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Tkinter Link or Hyperlink Button (Python recipe) by Miguel Martínez López
ActiveState Code (http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580774/)

If a background is not provided, the widget gets the background color from its container. The link button has two states: normal and visited. When the link is clicked, the state change to visited. When the link is clicked the action command is called. By default the text of the link has an underline. There is several options for customization.

I also added this megawidget to my "Metro UI Tkinter" recipe:

https://code.activestate.com/recipes/580729-metro-ui-tkinter

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# Author: Miguel Martinez Lopez

try:
    from Tkinter import Label
    from ttk import Style
    from tkFont import Font, nametofont
except ImportError:
    from tkinter import Label
    from tkinter.ttk import Style
    from tkinter.font import Font, nametofont

def get_background_of_widget(widget):
    try:
        # We assume first tk widget
        background = widget.cget("background")
    except:
        # Otherwise this is a ttk widget
        style = widget.cget("style")

        if style == "":
            # if there is not style configuration option, default style is the same than widget class
            style = widget.winfo_class()

        background = Style().lookup(style, 'background')
    
    return background

class Link_Button(Label, object):
    def __init__(self, master, text, background=None, font=None, familiy=None, size=None, underline=True, visited_fg = "#551A8B", normal_fg = "#0000EE", visited=False, action=None):
        self._visited_fg = visited_fg
        self._normal_fg = normal_fg
        
        if visited:
            fg = self._visited_fg
        else:
            fg = self._normal_fg

        if font is None:
            default_font = nametofont("TkDefaultFont")
            family = default_font.cget("family")

            if size is None:
                size = default_font.cget("size")

            font = Font(family=family, size=size, underline=underline)

        Label.__init__(self, master, text=text, fg=fg, cursor="hand2", font=font)

        if background is None:
            background = get_background_of_widget(master)

        self.configure(background=background)

        self._visited = visited
        self._action = action

        self.bind("<Button-1>", self._on_click)

    @property
    def visited(self):
        return self._visited
        
    @visited.setter
    def visited(self, is_visited):
        if is_visited:
            self.configure(fg=self._visited_fg)
            self._visited = True
        else:
            self.configure(fg=self._normal_fg)
            self._visited = False

    def _on_click(self, event):
        if not self._visited:
            self.configure(fg=self._visited_fg)

        self._visited = True

        if self._action:
            self._action()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    import webbrowser

    try:
        from Tkinter import Tk, Frame
    except ImportError:
        from tkinter import Tk, Frame    

    def callback():
        webbrowser.open_new(r"http://www.google.com")

    root = Tk()
    frame = Frame(root, bg="white")
    frame.pack(expand=True, fill="both")

    link = Link_Button(frame, text="Google Hyperlink", action=callback)
    link.pack(padx=10, pady=10)
    root.mainloop()
Tags: button, hyperlink, link, tkinter, webbrowser