how to change the background color of QLineEdit

[J.Hilk]

@Qt-Enthusiast take a look at qt's StyleSheets

that should have everything that you need, according to what you described so far.

[Qt Enthusiast]

but I am seeing boundary which I do not want I want QLineEdit should be part background widger

[Eddy]

@Qt-Enthusiast
As I see the context of what you want to do I would advise to use a QLabel instead of the QLineEdit. You never want to use it as an input field are you?

If you use QLabel you already have the background color without the border

[Qt Enthusiast]

But I am not able to use copy and paste with

https://forum.qt.io/topic/80070/how-to-change-the-mouse-cursor-that-shows-qlable-is-selectable/11

[jsulm]

@Qt-Enthusiast Did you check the link @J-Hilk provided? It show how to change border of QLineEdit.

[Qt Enthusiast]

I will try

[Eddy]

@Eddy said in how to change the background color of QLineEdit:

As I see the context of what you want to do I would advise to use a QLabel instead of the QLineEdit. You never want to use it as an input field are you?

@Qt-Enthusiast Could you please answer the question?

[Qt Enthusiast]

@Eddy But I am not able to use copy and paste with

https://forum.qt.io/topic/80070/how-to-change-the-mouse-cursor-that-shows-qlable-is-selectable/11

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[Eddy]

@Qt-Enthusiast

OK, you don't want QLabel because you need copy paste funcitonality. Now I understand.

You can use the following stylesheet on your lineedit :

ui->lineEdit->setStyleSheet("background: transparent;  border: 0px ;");

[Qt Enthusiast]

ui->lineEdit->setStyleSheet("background: transparent; border: 0px ;"); is giving me white color for background , how to set Color with RGB QColor(236,236,236) in below line

ui->lineEdit->setStyleSheet("background: transparent; border: 0px ;");

[Eddy]

ui->lineEdit->setStyleSheet("background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236); border: 0px ;");

[Qt Enthusiast]

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[Eddy]

@Qt-Enthusiast
Glad you could make it work. Can you please mark this topic as solved and start a new one since this is a totally different question.
Please provide us with the needed code of what you have already and explain as good as possible what you want to do.

Edit : made a new topic for your question : copy from qlineedit using pop up menu