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Textual – How to Add Widgets to a Container (Part I)

Textual – How to Add Widgets to a Container (Part I)

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Mike Driscoll
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Textual is an excellent Python package for creating beautiful user interfaces in your terminal. By default, Textual will arrange your widgets starting at the top of the screen and appending them in a vertically oriented stack. Each GUI or TUI toolkit provides a way to lay out your widgets. Textual is no different in this respect. They use an object call…

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