Inserting html and plain text in QTextEdit

[JohannesMunk]

I don't understand. Why don't you just add it as html? The same text. Just the other method. Does it work then?

[alexandernst]

No, it woesn't work
Could you try it to be sure?

[JohannesMunk]

#include <QtGui>
 
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication a(argc, argv);
 
    QTextEdit te;
    QTextCursor cursor = te.textCursor();
    cursor.insertHtml("<a href='http://www.w3schools.com/'>Link!</a>oops<br>");
    cursor.insertHtml("<a href='http://www.w3schools.com/'>Link!</a>");
    cursor.insertHtml("something");
    cursor.insertHtml("<br>");
    cursor.insertHtml("<a href='http://www.w3schools.com/'>Link!</a>");
    cursor.insertText("something");
    te.show();
    return a.exec();
}

#include <QtGui>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication a(argc, argv);

    QTextEdit te;
    QTextCursor cursor = te.textCursor();
    cursor.insertHtml("<a href='http://www.w3schools.com/'>Link!</a>oops<br>");
    cursor.insertHtml("<a href='http://www.w3schools.com/'>Link!</a>");
    cursor.insertHtml("something");
    cursor.insertHtml("<br>");
    cursor.insertHtml("<a href='http://www.w3schools.com/'>Link!</a>");
    cursor.insertText("something");
    te.show();
    return a.exec();
}

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LinkEdit..png
So you are right.. this is unexpected beviour. But inserting as html seems to work..

BTW:

self.cursor = QTextCursor(self.textArea.document())

self.cursor = QTextCursor(self.textArea.document())

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Is this correct for PyQt? Seems strange to me.

Johannes

[alexandernst]

I guess I'll be using only .insertHtml

About the self.cursor = QTextCursor(self.textArea.document())

textArea is a QTextEdit, and .document() returns a QTextDocument.
On the other hand, QTextCursor can be initialized with a QTextDocument, so, yes, it's correct (at least according to docs )
QTextCursor can also be inialized with QTextFrame, QTextCursor or without args.


Thanks for the help