Can I color a layout that is empty?

[A Former User]

I have a layout that I want to color with white

[jsulm]

@vale88 A layout is not a widget and cannot be colored. You will need to put a widget into this layout and color the widget instead.

[mrjj]

Hi
Can i ask why you want to color an empty layout ?

[A Former User]

@jsulm ok, I'm coloring the groupBox inside, I colored the background of the groupBox, now I want to colore the border, but in this way:
ui->groupBox_3->setStyleSheet("QGroupBox: { border: 2px solid gray; }");
the groupBox becomes transparent without the color inside also

[mrjj]

Hi
Combine both stylesheets to one so you both set color and also background.

[A Former User]

@mrjj I wrote:
ui->groupBox_3->setStyleSheet("QGroupBox: { border-color:rgb(117,117,117); background-color:rgb(117,117,117)}");
but It doesn't work, the groupBox becomes Transparent

[mrjj]

@vale88
It does work but you have to specify more

QGroupBox {
 background-color: qlineargradient(x1: 0, y1: 0, x2: 0, y2: 1,
                                   stop: 0 #E0E0E0, stop: 1 #FFFFFF);
 border: 2px solid gray;
 border-radius: 5px;
 margin-top: 1ex; /* leave space at the top for the title */
}

[J.Hilk]

@vale88 you're missing a ;at the end.
It makes a difference ;)

[A Former User]

@mrjj it works but the groupBox seems to have border circular and the inside isn't the same color gray of the background

[A Former User]

@vale88
and the inside isn't the same color gray of the border, I wanted to say

[A Former User]

@vale88 I solved, thank you

[mrjj]

@vale88
Well it was just sample.
i expected you to change colors to what you wanted :)

But actaully @J-Hilk's hawk eye spotted the real issue it does work then

QGroupBox { 
border-color:rgb(117,117,117); 
background-color:rgb(117,117,117);
};

[J.Hilk]

@mrjj

But actaully @J-Hilk's hawk eye spotted the real issue it does work then

a skill earend through countless hours of suffering...

I have spend days fighting with the stylesheet, only to learn I had it right in the beginning, but a ; was missing

🙈