[Qt-interest] QTextEdit and html/css problem

[Philippe Fremy]

Hi,

I have a bug/problem with Qt TextEdit.

I am trying to display new events occuring in a textedit in the form of
one line with a different background (the title) along the whole line,
and then some text.


I want the following output:

[] = different background

[ Event1 Title                              ]
bla
bla
bla

[ Event2 Title                              ]
bla
bla
bla

I am using the following html code:

QString htmlText =
"<p style=\"background-color:#eaf098; color:#455064;
font-size:10px\">Coucou</p> "
"<p style=\"color:#455064; font-size:12px\">Coucou</p> "
;

However, I am getting this:
[ Event1 Title                              ]
bla
bla
bla

[ Event2 Title ]
bla
bla
bla


The code is here :
#include "mainwindow.h"
#include "ui_mainwindow.h"

QString htmlText =
"<p style=\"background-color:#eaf098; color:#455064;
font-size:10px\">Coucou</p> "
"<p style=\"color:#455064; font-size:12px\">Coucou</p> "
;

// #define SHOW_BUGGY_TEXTEDIT false
#define SHOW_BUGGY_TEXTEDIT true

MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent)
    : QMainWindow(parent), ui(new Ui::MainWindowClass)
{
    ui->setupUi(this);
    if (SHOW_BUGGY_TEXTEDIT) {
        ui->textEdit->append( htmlText );
        ui->textEdit->append( htmlText );
    } else {
        ui->textEdit->setHtml( htmlText + htmlText );
    }
}

By changing the SHOW_BUGGY_TEXTEDIT, I get either the correct or the bad
behavior. So, setting the whole HTML makes QTextEdit react differently
than appending the html !

Any idea how I can get QTextEdit to do what I want ?

cheers,

Philippe