# 16.3 `ScrolledText` -- Scrolled Text Widget

Availability: Tk.

The `ScrolledText` module provides a class of the same name which implements a basic text widget which has a vertical scroll bar configured to do the ``right thing.'' Using the `ScrolledText` class is a lot easier than setting up a text widget and scroll bar directly. The constructor is the same as that of the `Tkinter.Text` class.

The text widget and scrollbar are packed together in a `Frame`, and the methods of the `Grid` and `Pack` geometry managers are acquired from the `Frame` object. This allows the `ScrolledText` widget to be used directly to achieve most normal geometry management behavior.

Should more specific control be necessary, the following attributes are available:

`frame`
  The frame which surrounds the text and scroll bar widgets.

`vbar`
  The scroll bar widget.