QTextBrowser and <hr color=

Perdrix

Given:

QColor windowTextColour = palette.color(QPalette::WindowText);

I tried:

textBrowser.insertHtml(QString("<hr color=\"") + windowTextColour.name() + "\">");

Which comes out to <hr color="#ffffff"> if a dark theme is active.

but the hr displayed was dark, not white as requested.

Did I get the incantation wrong or does the text browser not support specifying color= in an <hr> tag?

Thanks
David

Chris Kawa

@Perdrix color attribute corresponds to the text color of the content of given element. <hr> is not a textual element, nor does it have content. You can style the look of it via stylesheet:

tb->insertHtml("<hr style=\"background-color:" + windowTextColor.name() + "\">");

or simply:

tb->insertHtml("<hr style=\"background-color: palette(windowText)\">");

JonB

@Perdrix
Supported Tags

hr Horizontal line Supports the width attribute, which can be specified as an absolute or relative (%) value.

You can keep asking about each individual tag, but I doubt anyone knows any better than what is listed in "Supported Tags". You can also try <hr color="red"/> in a standalone document with no palette/dark mode and verify that does not work.

In the case of hr tag what evidence do you have that HTML respects color on it anyway? See e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6979848/horizontal-line-in-qtextedit for this and what you might do (e.g. div?).

Chris Kawa

@Perdrix color attribute corresponds to the text color of the content of given element. <hr> is not a textual element, nor does it have content. You can style the look of it via stylesheet:

tb->insertHtml("<hr style=\"background-color:" + windowTextColor.name() + "\">");

or simply:

tb->insertHtml("<hr style=\"background-color: palette(windowText)\">");

Perdrix

@Chris-Kawa Kudos!