Your scrollbars need to have the Frame as a parent, not the Canvas: from tkinter import * root=Tk() frame=Frame(root,width=300,height=300) frame.pack(expand=True, fill=BOTH) #.grid(row=0,column=0) canvas=Canvas(frame,bg=’#FFFFFF’,width=300,height=300,scrollregion=(0,0,500,500)) hbar=Scrollbar(frame,orient=HORIZONTAL) hbar.pack(side=BOTTOM,fill=X) hbar.config(command=canvas.xview) vbar=Scrollbar(frame,orient=VERTICAL) vbar.pack(side=RIGHT,fill=Y) vbar.config(command=canvas.yview) canvas.config(width=300,height=300) canvas.config(xscrollcommand=hbar.set, yscrollcommand=vbar.set) canvas.pack(side=LEFT,expand=True,fill=BOTH) root.mainloop() The reason why this works is due to how pack works. By default it will attempt to shrink (or grow) a … Read more