I'm looking for the easiest way to display a simple html file (just a long html-formatted text) inside the Qt dialog. Links, if any, should be opened in the external default system browser.
2 Answers
No need for a QWebView, use a QTextBrowser:
#include <QTextBrowser>
QTextBrowser *tb = new QTextBrowser(this);
tb->setOpenExternalLinks(true);
tb->setHtml(htmlString);
also remember QT += widgets
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtextedit.html#html-prop
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtextbrowser.html#openExternalLinks-prop
3 Comments
paws
Works. Thanks a lot!
Mustafa Uçar
import codecs f=codecs.open(r"D:\filename.html", 'r') tb = QTextBrowser() tb.setOpenExternalLinks(True) tb.setHtml(f.read()) tb.show()
Swift - Friday Pie
Note
QTextBrowser isn't dysplaying a correct html. It displays it as formatted hypertext in SGML-like format with tag system loosely resembling html4. It might be an ill-formed html and it still would be displayed. It can't do most things html browser does.Working example in Python using PySide2:
from PySide2.QtWidgets import QTextBrowser, QApplication
if __name__ == '__main__':
import sys
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
text_browser = QTextBrowser()
str_html = """
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h1 style="color:blue;">Hello World!</h1>
<p style="color:red;">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p>
</body>
</html>
"""
text_browser.setText(str_html)
text_browser.show()
text_browser.raise_()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
