Can HTML tags be used in QPushButton:setText ?

edmh

I know I can style the text in a QLabel using "<span style:color...> Text </span>" when calling setText. But if I do this on a QPushButton, it does not work. The text on my QPushButton object contains the text "<span style...". In other words the html tags are ignored and taken literally by QPushButton.

Question: Can you use basic HTML style tags in QPushButton?. Yes I am aware you can use 'setStyleSheet' but I don't want to have to call setStylesheet if I just need to quickly color the text in a QPushButton. And I don't want to use QPallet or overide paintEvent to do this. I am using Qt5 on Fedora linux ( 35 )

Christian Ehrlicher

According the documentation, no.

edmh

Ok thanks. I guess I'll have to use setStylesheet.

JonB

@edmh
I think some people use a QLabel as a button to get more styling options, rich text and others.

edmh

@JonB Good idea. I might try that approach. Thx.

edmh

Actually this can be done. You can 'embed' a QLabel in the QPushButton

<code>
puushButton->setLayout(new QGridLayout);

QLabel* textLabel = new QLabel("<span style='color:#FF3300; font-size:10pt;'>Hello world!</span>");
textLabel->setAlignment(Qt::AlignRight | Qt::AlignVCenter); // or center
textLabel->setAttribute(Qt::WA_TransparentForMouseEvents, true);

pushButton->layout()->addWidget(textLabel);

</code>

edmh

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Thanks.

SGaist

@edmh said in Can HTML tags be used in QPushButton:setText ?:

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