How to set different background-color for part of text in QLabel

[kahlenberg]

Hi,
I want to set background-color of a part of text in QLabel differently. I can use QLabel.setStyleSheet method but it changes whole background. I only want to change background of particular text.
For example:
Text to be written in QLabel: 00-01-02-03-04-05
I want to have all text black, backgorund-color of "00" shall be red, background-color of "01" shall be blue and so on.
How can I do that?

Thanks.

[VRonin]

http://www.bogotobogo.com/cplusplus/files/c-gui-programming-with-qt-4-2ndedition.pdf page 11

See also: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/richtext-html-subset.html

label->setText(R"**(<span style="background-color:red;">00</span>-<span style="background-color:blue;">01</span>-02-03-04-05)**");

[Ni.Sumi]

@kahlenberg

AFAIK, One you can use linear gradient on the QLabel. If you don't need exact end for colors.

2. Easy way, Use some color band image like this as background .It is same as you want .
   

[kahlenberg]

@VRonin
Thanks, it works!
But What is R"** in front of text?

[VRonin]

@kahlenberg said in How to set different background-color for part of text in QLabel:

What is R"** in front of text?

It's a raw string literal I use it to avoid escaping quotes inside span, otherwise you should write:
label->setText("<span style=\"background-color:red;\">00</span>-<span style=\"background-color:blue;\">01</span>-02-03-04-05");