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  • SGaistS Offline
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    SGaist
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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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      HenkCoder
      wrote on last edited by
      #21

      @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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        SGaist
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        wrote on last edited by
        #22

        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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          wrote on last edited by
          #23

          @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:
          2ee25edf-65b3-4cb4-b708-c72fc795898b-image.png
          but then when I type something in a cell the line separing the different cells adapts to the text. How do I avoid that?
          1028cb6d-ea87-49a6-a923-5f6d7e1adbb7-image.png
          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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              wrote on last edited by HenkCoder
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                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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                    wrote on last edited by
                    #28

                    @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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