How to set background color of my QTextEdit?

[qwe3]

Hi,

I have QTextEdit object. I would like to change his background color to color, which my MainWindow has ( it is gray ). How can I do that?

I tried like this:

    QPalette palette2 = textEdit->palette();
    palette2.setColor(QPalette::Window,palette().color(QWidget::backgroundRole()));
    textEdit->setPalette(palette2);

[JonB]

@qwe3
I believe if you want to do it this way you have to set autoFillBackground.

You don't have to do that if you use stylesheet instead.

[mrjj]

Hi
It has to be the right role. QWidget::backgroundRole() is not used it seems.

Try

    QPalette p = ui->textEdit->palette();
    p.setColor(QPalette::Base, Qt::red); // BG
    p.setColor(QPalette::Text, Qt::white); // (plain) TEXT
    ui->textEdit->setPalette(p);