local HTML file display in TextBrowser

[praneshpk]

Hi,
I am trying to browse an HTML file and display it in a text browser. I am quite confused how to display that. Can anyone help me with this?

[JonB]

@praneshpk
Assuming you mean QTextBrowser, you are supposed to use setSource() to your file. What did you try?

[praneshpk]

I am using python. I have used the browse button to select the files, but I'm confused about how to use textbrowser. I'm struck at this function.

def browseSlot( self ):
    options = QtWidgets.QFileDialog.Options()
    options |= QtWidgets.QFileDialog.DontUseNativeDialog
    fileName, _ = QtWidgets.QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(
                    None,
                    "QFileDialog.getOpenFileName()",
                    "",
                    "All files(*);;HTML Files (*.html)",
                    options=options)
    if fileName:
        #self.debugPrint( "setting file name: " + fileName )
        self.model.setFileName( fileName )
        self.refreshAll()
        print(fileName)
    return fileName

def refreshAll( self ):
    self.lineEdit.setText( self.model.getFileName() )

def returnPressedSlot( self ):
    fileName =  self.lineEdit.text()


def textbrowser():
    ???????????

[JonB]

@praneshpk said in local HTML file display in TextBrowser:

def textbrowser():
???????????

I don't know what you intend such a method to do. I (believe) you have said you want to display the HTML file in a QTextBrowser so you need one of those. And that has a QTextBrowser.setSource() method if you want to point it directly to a file/URL, or QTextBrowser.setHtml() if you want to read the HTML file content yourself.

[praneshpk]

@JonB said in local HTML file display in TextBrowser:

self.QTextBrowser.setSource(filename)

It is not working, Do I need webengine for viewing HTML in textbrowser. Can you guide me with this code

[JonB]

@praneshpk said in local HTML file display in TextBrowser:

Do I need webengine for viewing HTML in textbrowser.

No. QTextBrowser will do it.

It is not working

setSource() takes a URL. And has two overloads. You need to read https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtextbrowser.html#source-prop and consider what you are passing for filename and where you expect it to be found.