Hi Ron, >from Tkinter import *
>root = Tk() >t = Text(root) >t.insert( END, '01234567890123456789' ) >t.tag_add( 'x', '1.4', '1.12') >t.tag_config( 'x', fgstipple='gray12' ) >t.pack( ) >root.mainloop() your code works fine for me. With 'grey12' the text is just hard to see. Retry with 'grey75'. For completeness: I'm on Linux, Python 2.4.1, tcl/tk 8.4.6 Cheers, Matthias Kievernagel (mkiever/at/web/dot/de) _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss