QLabel text not visible

[Perdrix]

I have a QLabel whose stylesheet is set to:

"background: qcolor(rgba(0,0,0,0))"

When the text was set to:

"<Click here to select the Monitored Folder>"

it was visible.

But when I changed the text to:

"<a href='.' style='text-decoration: none; color: #0000ff'><Click here to select the Monitored Folder></a>"

it was no longer visible.

What have I missed?

[JonB]

@Perdrix
Your second case is definitely HTML/rich text (first case could be plain text only, QLabel does both). Are you sure that supplying literal text inside <...> is legit for HTML/Qt's rich text? You should really be HTML entitizing those, does that make any difference...?

[Perdrix]

@JonB It was precisely that! Thank you.

When I removed the <> from the original text it all worked. The background colour was a red herring!

[JonB]

@Perdrix said in QLabel text not visible:

The background colour was a red herring!

Actually it was a blue herring....

[Perdrix]

@JonB ROFL

[Pl45m4]

@Perdrix said in QLabel text not visible:

When I removed the <>

If you still need < ... > around your text (which was also in your text before), I think it can be done by escaping the characters / replacing them with < ( ' <' ) and > ( '>' ).
Not tested but should work.

[JonB]

@Pl45m4

escaping the characters / replacing them with

@JonB said in QLabel text not visible:

You should really be HTML entitizing those, does that make any difference...?

That's what "entitizing" means :)

[Pl45m4]

@JonB

Learning never stops :)
I knew that these exist, but there was no connection to the word "Entity" in my mind ;-)

• https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp