styling parent but not child?

Is it possible to style the parent of a widget, but prevent child widgets from inheriting the parent's style?

Say I have a QListView, which can have 2 scrollbars. If I set the background style of the QListView to say, background:red, the scrollbars will likewise color red, but I'd like them to assume the system default color.

My current solution is this:

- setAttribute(Qt::WA_NoSystemBackground) on the view,
- override view's paintEvent() and repaint the background manually, but differently for the "main" area and the areas of the scrollbars, if they are visible.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by ugluk

Say I have a QListView, which can have 2 scrollbars. If I set the background style of the QListView to say, background:red, the scrollbars will likewise color red, but I'd like them to assume the system default color.

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Code:

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QPalette p = view->palette();
p.setColor(QPalette::Base, Qt::red);
view->setPalette(p);

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It works! Thanks!