<![CDATA[QWidget background-image not showing-up]]>Hi community !

I have a question, it might be stupid but ... I have an issue with that.
I have created a QWidget inside Qt designer and tried to set the styleSheet as following:

QWidget {background-image: url(:/corp/home/name/maya/scripts/image.jpg)}

But nothing it displayed ... I have seen that there is a question of relative/absolute path depending if you're working with the Qt project or not which I am not using. By not using it, it is logical that I use an absolute path to my file... So I don t get why this is not working... Am I missing something ?

Thx

]]>https://forum.qt.io/topic/59155/qwidget-background-image-not-showing-upRSS for NodeFri, 05 Jun 2026 22:14:56 GMTThu, 24 Sep 2015 23:13:37 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to QWidget background-image not showing-up on Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:41:06 GMT]]>@Goffer have you tried

QWidget#widgetId
]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/291573https://forum.qt.io/post/291573Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:41:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to QWidget background-image not showing-up on Fri, 25 Sep 2015 18:35:09 GMT]]>Is there a way to center the image in the QWidget ? apparently you can only specify what corner you want it to be but that's all.

Edit:

Okay after further tests, I don' t want to use the background-image because if I add an other widget in this QWidget it wil have the image displayed too. Or maybe there is a way to specify that we want to display it for this QWidget only and not his children ?

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/291547https://forum.qt.io/post/291547Fri, 25 Sep 2015 18:35:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to QWidget background-image not showing-up on Fri, 25 Sep 2015 16:37:31 GMT]]>@Goffer Use the background-repeat property : http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_background-repeat.asp

QWidget {
background-image: url(/corp/home/name/maya/scripts/image.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/291536https://forum.qt.io/post/291536Fri, 25 Sep 2015 16:37:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to QWidget background-image not showing-up on Fri, 25 Sep 2015 16:33:31 GMT]]>Oh Thank you, it s working without ":" but I now realize that it's not what I want as the image is tiling... I just want to display it as 1 image.
I guess I will go back to the QLabel + pixmap but then it is not very convenient as you can't put items on top like you would do if it was a QWidget background.

absolute path was for testing purpose, then this will be integrated into a pipeline and and point to a relative path.

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/291533https://forum.qt.io/post/291533Fri, 25 Sep 2015 16:33:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to QWidget background-image not showing-up on Fri, 25 Sep 2015 06:37:22 GMT]]>Hi
I thinks its the ":" in the paths. that is normally used when loading from a qrc file.

this works for me
QWidget {
background-image: url(e:/test.png)
}
with image on E:

That said, using absolute path will come back and haunt you if you ever want to run the app elsewhere than on your pc. :)

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