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## Tcl/Tk Documentation > TkCmd > ttk_image

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  NAME
    ttk_image - Define an element based on an image
  SYNOPSIS
    ttk::style element create name image imageSpec ?options?
  DESCRIPTION
  OPTIONS
    -border padding
    -height height
    -padding padding
    -sticky spec
    -width width
  IMAGE STRETCHING
  EXAMPLE
  SEE ALSO
  KEYWORDS

### NAME

ttk_image - Define an element based on an image

### SYNOPSIS

ttk::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 img3 [image create photo -file button-active.png]
    style element create Button.button image \
        [list $img1  pressed $img2  active $img3] \
        -border {2 4} -sticky we

### SEE ALSO

ttk::intro, ttk::style, ttk_vsapi, image, photo

### KEYWORDS

style, theme, appearance, pixmap theme, image
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