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ID	CS001429	Creation date	June 16, 2009
Platform	S60 3rd Edition, FP1, FP2 S60 5th Edition	Tested on devices	Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
Category	Qt for Symbian	Subcategory	UI

Keywords (APIs, classes, methods, functions): QTextBrowser

Overview

This code snippet demonstrates how to use QTextBrowser. The QTextBrowser class extends QTextEdit and provides a rich text browser with hypertext navigation.

Note: In order to use this code, you need to have Qt for S60 installed on your platform.

Preconditions

• Install latest Qt for S60 see Qt for S60 - Installation packages
• Check this link for installation guide: How to install the package.
• Go through this article: Getting started with Qt for S60

Header

#include <QWidget>
#include <QTextBrowser>
#include <QVBoxLayout>
 
class MyWidget : public QWidget
    {
    Q_OBJECT
 
    public:
        MyWidget(QWidget *parent = 0);
        ~MyWidget();
        void setText(QString);
 
    private:
        QTextBrowser*   textBrowser;
    };

Source

MyWidget::MyWidget(QWidget *parent)
    : QWidget(parent)
    {
    // Create text browser
    textBrowser = new QTextBrowser(this);
 
    // Set it read only
    textBrowser->setReadOnly(true);
 
    // Do not show frames    
    textBrowser->setFrameStyle(true);
    textBrowser->setFrameStyle(QFrame::Plain);
 
    // NOTE: That allows to open links from the html code
    textBrowser->setOpenExternalLinks(true);
 
    // Use layout
    QVBoxLayout* layout = new QVBoxLayout;
    layout->addWidget(textBrowser);
    setLayout(layout);
    }
 
void MyWidget::setText(QString data)
    {
    // Set some html data into QTextBrowser
    textBrowser->setHtml(data);
    }
 
MyWidget::~MyWidget()
    {
    }

See also

• For more information about QTextBrowser, see QTextBrowser Class Reference.

Postconditions

QTextBrowser shows HTML and the device's web browser follows the link when the user selects it.