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How to style a table in QTextEdit

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  • M mchinand

    Try just creating a table statically in code first to figure out how to get the stylesheet working.

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    @mchinand
    Ok.

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      Hi,

      I think you are mixing two very different things here:

      • Qt Style Sheet for customizing widgets
      • QTextDocument Rich Text support shown through QTextEdit.

      What you want to do is handled by the later. See the Rich Text chapter in Qt's documentation.

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      • SGaistS SGaist

        Hi,

        I think you are mixing two very different things here:

        • Qt Style Sheet for customizing widgets
        • QTextDocument Rich Text support shown through QTextEdit.

        What you want to do is handled by the later. See the Rich Text chapter in Qt's documentation.

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        @SGaist Hello,
        So, I got the border collapse working by doing this:

        TextEdit *edit{getTabTextEdit()};
            QTextTableFormat format;
            format.setBorderCollapse(true);
            edit->textCursor().insertTable(lineNum, columnNum, format);
        

        But I don't know how to set the table's width to change when the textedit's width changes and I don't know how to put its width to 100% as CSS does.

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          If memory serves well, something like:

          format.setWidth(QTextLength(QTextLength::PercentageLength, 100));
          

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          • SGaistS SGaist

            If memory serves well, something like:

            format.setWidth(QTextLength(QTextLength::PercentageLength, 100));
            
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            @SGaist Yes! This was right!
            Thank you so much, but I have one last question, sorry about that.
            When I create the table it's like this:
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            but then when I type something in a cell the line separing the different cells adapts to the text. How do I avoid that?
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            I just wanted to expand the table to the TextEdit's width not also this feature.

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              So you want the column to all take the same percentage of space ?

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              • SGaistS SGaist

                So you want the column to all take the same percentage of space ?

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                • SGaistS SGaist

                  So you want the column to all take the same percentage of space ?

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                  @SGaist Yes, but in the way that they are distribuited, for example if I have 3 columns each one will be 33% but I don't want that they adapt with the text.

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                    Then QTextTableFormat::setColumnWidthConstraints looks like what you want.

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                    • SGaistS SGaist

                      Then QTextTableFormat::setColumnWidthConstraints looks like what you want.

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                      @SGaist And how do I do that? I tried to search online but I didn't find any solution that may help me, because they are reguarding QTableView.
                      I also checked the documentation but it doesn't explain much and I still don't know how to use it.
                      Thanks in advance.

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                        QTextLength oneThird = QTextLength(QTextLength::PercentageLength, 33);
                        QVector<QTextLength> constraints(3, oneThird);
                        format.setColumnWidthConstraints(constraints);
                        

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                          QTextLength oneThird = QTextLength(QTextLength::PercentageLength, 33);
                          QVector<QTextLength> constraints(3, oneThird);
                          format.setColumnWidthConstraints(constraints);
                          
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                          @SGaist This was the right solution! Thank you so much!

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