CSS Selector for widget Class

by Martin Fitzpatrick Last updated Sep 17 PyQt5 FAQ

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Emmanuel_Joshua | 2021-02-15 23:30:25 UTC | #1

I've a widget given a class shown below:

widget.setProperty("cssClass", "welcome")

To select and style this widget from my css file (style.css) failed to work. Here's the selector I tried:

QWidget[cssClass="welcome] { //styles go here

}

What I'm I doing wrong here? Is the selector correct?

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CSS Selector for widget Class was written by Martin Fitzpatrick.

Martin Fitzpatrick has been developing Python/Qt apps for 8 years. Building desktop applications to make data-analysis tools more user-friendly, Python was the obvious choice. Starting with Tk, later moving to wxWidgets and finally adopting PyQt. Martin founded PythonGUIs to provide easy to follow GUI programming tutorials to the Python community. He has written a number of popular Python books on the subject.

CSS Selector for widget Class was published in faq on February 15, 2021 (updated September 17, 2024) . Feedback & Corrections can be submitted here.

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