Gtk.Button
Description: Reference for Gtk.Button

### Class

# GtkButton

#### Description [src]

    class Gtk.Button : Gtk.Widget
      implements Gtk.Accessible, Gtk.Actionable, Gtk.Buildable, Gtk.ConstraintTarget {
      /* No available fields */
    }

The `GtkButton` widget is generally used to trigger a callback function that is called when the button is pressed.

The `GtkButton` widget can hold any valid child widget. That is, it can hold almost any other standard `GtkWidget`. The most commonly used child is the `GtkLabel`.

# CSS nodes

`GtkButton` has a single CSS node with name button. The node will get the style classes .image-button or .text-button, if the content is just an image or label, respectively. It may also receive the .flat style class. When activating a button via the keyboard, the button will temporarily gain the .keyboard-activating style class.

Other style classes that are commonly used with `GtkButton` include .suggested-action and .destructive-action. In special cases, buttons can be made round by adding the .circular style class.

Button-like widgets like `GtkToggleButton`, `GtkMenuButton`, `GtkVolumeButton`, `GtkLockButton`, `GtkColorButton` or `GtkFontButton` use style classes such as .toggle, .popup, .scale, .lock, .color on the button node to differentiate themselves from a plain `GtkButton`.

# Accessibility

`GtkButton` uses the `GTK_ACCESSIBLE_ROLE_BUTTON` role.

#### Hierarchy

#### Ancestors

- GtkWidget
- GInitiallyUnowned
- GObject

#### Descendants

- GtkLinkButton
- GtkLockButton
- GtkToggleButton

#### Implements

- GtkAccessible
- GtkActionable
- GtkBuildable
- GtkConstraintTarget

#### Constructors

###### gtk_button_new

Creates a new `GtkButton` widget.

###### gtk_button_new_from_icon_name

Creates a new button containing an icon from the current icon theme.

###### gtk_button_new_with_label

Creates a `GtkButton` widget with a `GtkLabel` child.

###### gtk_button_new_with_mnemonic

Creates a new `GtkButton` containing a label.

#### Instance methods

###### gtk_button_get_can_shrink

Retrieves whether the button can be smaller than the natural size of its contents.

since: 4.12

###### gtk_button_get_child

Gets the child widget of `button`.

###### gtk_button_get_has_frame

Returns whether the button has a frame.

###### gtk_button_get_icon_name

Returns the icon name of the button.

###### gtk_button_get_label

Fetches the text from the label of the button.

###### gtk_button_get_use_underline

Gets whether underlines are interpreted as mnemonics.

###### gtk_button_set_can_shrink

Sets whether the button size can be smaller than the natural size of its contents.

since: 4.12

###### gtk_button_set_child

Sets the child widget of `button`.

###### gtk_button_set_has_frame

Sets the style of the button.

###### gtk_button_set_icon_name

Adds a `GtkImage` with the given icon name as a child.

###### gtk_button_set_label

Sets the text of the label of the button to `label`.

###### gtk_button_set_use_underline

Sets whether to use underlines as mnemonics.

##### Methods inherited from GtkWidget (162)

Please see GtkWidget for a full list of methods.

##### Methods inherited from GObject (43)

Please see GObject for a full list of methods.

##### Methods inherited from GtkAccessible (18)

###### gtk_accessible_get_accessible_parent

Retrieves the accessible parent for an accessible object.

since: 4.10

###### gtk_accessible_get_accessible_role

Retrieves the accessible role of an accessible object.

###### gtk_accessible_get_at_context

Retrieves the accessible implementation for the given `GtkAccessible`.

since: 4.10

###### gtk_accessible_get_bounds

Queries the coordinates and dimensions of this accessible.

since: 4.10

###### gtk_accessible_get_first_accessible_child

Retrieves the first accessible child of an accessible object.

since: 4.10

###### gtk_accessible_get_next_accessible_sibling

Retrieves the next accessible sibling of an accessible object.

since: 4.10

###### gtk_accessible_get_platform_state

Query a platform state, such as focus.

since: 4.10

###### gtk_accessible_reset_property

Resets the accessible `property` to its default value.

###### gtk_accessible_reset_relation

Resets the accessible `relation` to its default value.

###### gtk_accessible_reset_state

Resets the accessible `state` to its default value.

###### gtk_accessible_set_accessible_parent

Sets the parent and sibling of an accessible object.

since: 4.10

###### gtk_accessible_update_next_accessible_sibling

Updates the next accessible sibling of `self`.

since: 4.10

###### gtk_accessible_update_property

Updates a list of accessible properties.

###### gtk_accessible_update_property_value

Updates an array of accessible properties.

###### gtk_accessible_update_relation

Updates a list of accessible relations.

###### gtk_accessible_update_relation_value

Updates an array of accessible relations.

###### gtk_accessible_update_state

Updates a list of accessible states. See the `GtkAccessibleState` documentation for the value types of accessible states.

###### gtk_accessible_update_state_value

Updates an array of accessible states.

##### Methods inherited from GtkActionable (6)

###### gtk_actionable_get_action_name

Gets the action name for `actionable`.

###### gtk_actionable_get_action_target_value

Gets the current target value of `actionable`.

###### gtk_actionable_set_action_name

Specifies the name of the action with which this widget should be associated.

###### gtk_actionable_set_action_target

Sets the target of an actionable widget.

###### gtk_actionable_set_action_target_value

Sets the target value of an actionable widget.

###### gtk_actionable_set_detailed_action_name

Sets the action-name and associated string target value of an actionable widget.

##### Methods inherited from GtkBuildable (1)

###### gtk_buildable_get_buildable_id

Gets the ID of the `buildable` object.

#### Properties

###### Gtk.Button:can-shrink

Whether the size of the button can be made smaller than the natural size of its contents.

since: 4.12

###### Gtk.Button:child

The child widget.

###### Gtk.Button:has-frame

Whether the button has a frame.

###### Gtk.Button:icon-name

The name of the icon used to automatically populate the button.

###### Gtk.Button:label

Text of the label inside the button, if the button contains a label widget.

###### Gtk.Button:use-underline

If set, an underline in the text indicates that the following character is to be used as mnemonic.

##### Properties inherited from GtkWidget (34)

###### Gtk.Widget:can-focus

Whether the widget or any of its descendents can accept the input focus.

###### Gtk.Widget:can-target

Whether the widget can receive pointer events.

###### Gtk.Widget:css-classes

A list of css classes applied to this widget.

###### Gtk.Widget:css-name

The name of this widget in the CSS tree.

###### Gtk.Widget:cursor

The cursor used by `widget`.

###### Gtk.Widget:focus-on-click

Whether the widget should grab focus when it is clicked with the mouse.

###### Gtk.Widget:focusable

Whether this widget itself will accept the input focus.

###### Gtk.Widget:halign

How to distribute horizontal space if widget gets extra space.

###### Gtk.Widget:has-default

Whether the widget is the default widget.

###### Gtk.Widget:has-focus

Whether the widget has the input focus.

###### Gtk.Widget:has-tooltip

Enables or disables the emission of the ::query-tooltip signal on `widget`.

###### Gtk.Widget:height-request

Override for height request of the widget.

###### Gtk.Widget:hexpand

Whether to expand horizontally.

###### Gtk.Widget:hexpand-set

Whether to use the `hexpand` property.

###### Gtk.Widget:layout-manager

The `GtkLayoutManager` instance to use to compute the preferred size of the widget, and allocate its children.

###### Gtk.Widget:margin-bottom

Margin on bottom side of widget.

###### Gtk.Widget:margin-end

Margin on end of widget, horizontally.

###### Gtk.Widget:margin-start

Margin on start of widget, horizontally.

###### Gtk.Widget:margin-top

Margin on top side of widget.

###### Gtk.Widget:name

The name of the widget.

###### Gtk.Widget:opacity

The requested opacity of the widget.

###### Gtk.Widget:overflow

How content outside the widget’s content area is treated.

###### Gtk.Widget:parent

The parent widget of this widget.

###### Gtk.Widget:receives-default

Whether the widget will receive the default action when it is focused.

###### Gtk.Widget:root

The `GtkRoot` widget of the widget tree containing this widget.

###### Gtk.Widget:scale-factor

The scale factor of the widget.

###### Gtk.Widget:sensitive

Whether the widget responds to input.

###### Gtk.Widget:tooltip-markup

Sets the text of tooltip to be the given string, which is marked up with Pango markup.

###### Gtk.Widget:tooltip-text

Sets the text of tooltip to be the given string.

###### Gtk.Widget:valign

How to distribute vertical space if widget gets extra space.

###### Gtk.Widget:vexpand

Whether to expand vertically.

###### Gtk.Widget:vexpand-set

Whether to use the `vexpand` property.

###### Gtk.Widget:visible

Whether the widget is visible.

###### Gtk.Widget:width-request

Override for width request of the widget.

##### Properties inherited from GtkAccessible (1)

###### GtkAccessible:accessible-role

The accessible role of the given `GtkAccessible` implementation.

##### Properties inherited from GtkActionable (2)

###### GtkActionable:action-name

No description available.

###### GtkActionable:action-target

No description available.

#### Signals

###### Gtk.Button::activate

Emitted to animate press then release.

###### Gtk.Button::clicked

Emitted when the button has been activated (pressed and released).

##### Signals inherited from GtkWidget (13)

###### GtkWidget::destroy

Signals that all holders of a reference to the widget should release the reference that they hold.

###### GtkWidget::direction-changed

Emitted when the text direction of a widget changes.

###### GtkWidget::hide

Emitted when `widget` is hidden.

###### GtkWidget::keynav-failed

Emitted if keyboard navigation fails.

###### GtkWidget::map

Emitted when `widget` is going to be mapped.

###### GtkWidget::mnemonic-activate

Emitted when a widget is activated via a mnemonic.

###### GtkWidget::move-focus

Emitted when the focus is moved.

###### GtkWidget::query-tooltip

Emitted when the widget’s tooltip is about to be shown.

###### GtkWidget::realize

Emitted when `widget` is associated with a `GdkSurface`.

###### GtkWidget::show

Emitted when `widget` is shown.

###### GtkWidget::state-flags-changed

Emitted when the widget state changes.

###### GtkWidget::unmap

Emitted when `widget` is going to be unmapped.

###### GtkWidget::unrealize

Emitted when the `GdkSurface` associated with `widget` is destroyed.

##### Signals inherited from GObject (1)

###### GObject::notify

The notify signal is emitted on an object when one of its properties has its value set through g_object_set_property(), g_object_set(), et al.

#### Class structure

    struct GtkButtonClass {
      GtkWidgetClass parent_class;
      void (* clicked) (
        GtkButton* button
      );
      void (* activate) (
        GtkButton* button
      );

    }

No description available.

###### Class members

`parent_class: GtkWidgetClass`

  The parent class.

`clicked: void (* clicked) ( GtkButton* button )`
  No description available.
`activate: void (* activate) ( GtkButton* button )`
  No description available.

#### Virtual methods

###### Gtk.ButtonClass.activate

No description available.

###### Gtk.ButtonClass.clicked

No description available.