Question: So I have so far a simple python tkinter window and i'm adding text, buttons, etc.

snippet:

```
class Cfrm(Frame):

    def createWidgets(self):

        self.text = Text(self, width=50, height=10)
        self.text.insert('1.0', 'some text will be here')
        self.text.tag_configure('big', font=('Verdana', 24, 'bold'))

        self.text["state"] = "disabled"
        self.text.grid(row=0, column=1)

        self.quitw = Button(self)
        self.quitw["text"] = "exit",
        self.quitw["command"] = self.quit
        self.quitw.grid(row=1, column=1)

    def __init__(self, master=None):
        Frame.__init__(self, master)
        self.pack()
        self.createWidgets()

```

the problem is, I want to have about a 15-20 px margin around the window, I looked everywhere, and I couldn't find a solution. Also 

```
self.text.tag_configure('big', font=('Verdana', 24, 'bold'))

```

doesn't work. Any possible solutions?

Answer: 
Ok, here is the solution I found for question 1:

```
self.grid(padx=20, pady=20)

```

Removing `.text` seems to change the whole frame. I still haven't solved problem 2.
Use the pad options (padx, pady, ipadx, ipady) for the grid command to add padding around the text widget. For example:

```
self.text.grid(row=0, column=1, padx=20, pady=20)

```

If you want padding around the whole GUI, add padding when you pack the application frame:

```
self.pack(padx=20, pady=20)

```

When you say the tag command doesn't work, how do you define "doesn't work"? Are you getting an error? Does the font look big but not bold, bold but not big, ...? The command looks fine to me, and when I run it it works fine. 

Your example doesn't show that you're actually applying that tag to a range of text. Are you? If so, how? If you do the following, what happens?

```
self.text.insert("1.0", 'is this bold?', 'big')

```