How to Use QTextEdit

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Overview

With QTextEdit, you get an easy to use class to create a rich text field. With this text field, you can display plain text, but also rich text like HTML-formatted text and images.

Important methods

• void setText(const QString text)
  

Resets the displayed text to the specified one.

• void append(const QString text)
  

Appends the specified text to the displayed text.

• QString toHtml()
  

Returns the content of the QTextEdit text field as HTML-formatted text.

• QString toPlainText()
  

Returns the content of the QTextEdit text field as plain text.

Example

QTextEdit can be used for multiple purposes, here is a simple editor:

#include <QApplication>
#include <QTextEdit>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
 QApplication app(argc, argv);

QTextEdit *txt = new QTextEdit();
 txt->setText("Hello, world!");
 txt->append("Appending some text…");

txt->show();
 return app.exec();
}