By default, a QLineEdit is greyed-out when disabled.
If you set a stylesheet with a simple directive, e.g. setting a border, this cancels that default behaviour.
Fortunately it is possible to mimic the default behaviour, like so:
qle.setStyleSheet('QLineEdit[readOnly=\"true\"] {color: #808080; background-color: #F0F0F0;}')
But how might I combine this conditional greying-out with setting a border (unconditionally)?
Here is an MRE:
import sys
from PyQt5 import QtWidgets
class Window(QtWidgets.QWidget):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
self.setWindowTitle("QLE stylesheet question")
self.setMinimumSize(400, 30)
layout = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout()
qle = QtWidgets.QLineEdit()
qle.setObjectName('qle')
# qle.setStyleSheet('border:4px solid yellow;')
# this sets up the style sheet to reproduce the default PyQt behaviour for a QLE (greyed-out if disabled, otherwise not)
# qle.setStyleSheet('QLineEdit[readOnly=\"true\"] {color: #808080; background-color: #F0F0F0;}')
# doesn't work: when disabled is not greyed-out!
qle.setStyleSheet('#qle {border:4px solid yellow;} #qle[readOnly=\"true\"] {color: #808080; background-color: #F0F0F0;}')
# qle.setEnabled(False) # uncomment to see "disabled" appearance
layout.addWidget(qle)
self.setLayout(layout)
if __name__ == "__main__":
app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
window = Window()
window.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())