In short, you can get the style you want with: 

my $wanted_style = $tree->entrycget($path_to_copy_style_from, q{-style
+});

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You haven't shown sufficient code for me suggest where you might have gone wrong; however, I've included a call to entryconfigure() (in the example code below) in case that's what was causing the problem.

Here's a working script that demonstrates a way to achieve what you want. 

use strict;
use warnings;

use Tk;
use Tk::Tree;
use Tk::ItemStyle;

my $mw = MainWindow->new();

my $style_t1 = $mw->ItemStyle(q{text}, -fg => q{red}, -bg => q{gold});
my $style_t1_2 = $mw->ItemStyle(q{text}, -fg => q{red}, -bg => q{white
+});
my $indent0_line = 2;

my $frame_t1 = $mw->Frame()->pack;
my $frame_t2 = $mw->Frame()->pack;
my $frame_b = $mw->Frame()->pack;

my $tree_1 = $frame_t1->Tree(-itemtype => q{text})->pack;

for (0 .. 3) {
    $tree_1->add($_, -text => qq{Line: $_}, -style => $style_t1);
}

$tree_1->entryconfigure($indent0_line, -style => $style_t1_2);

my $tree_2 = $frame_t2->Tree(-itemtype => q{text})->pack;
my $indent0_line_style = $tree_1->entrycget($indent0_line, q{-style});

for (0 .. 3) {
    $tree_2->add($_, -text => qq{Line: $_}, -style => $indent0_line_st
+yle);
}

$frame_b->Button(-text => q{Exit}, -command => sub { exit })->pack;

MainLoop;

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-- Ken

In reply to Re: PerlTk - How to retrieve the item style of a tree node? by kcott
in thread PerlTk - How to retrieve the item style of a tree node? by Sicario

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