Qt Creator - How can I set the background color of a tooltip to be different than the widget?

background-color, qt, qt-creator, tooltip

Solution

You can do something like this to style a `QToolTip` in general.

QToolTip { color: #fff; background-color: #000; border: none; }

When you need to style `QToolTips` specifically, based on their parent widget you can use following syntax:

ParentWidgetName QToolTip { color: #333; background-color: #1c1c1c; border: none; }

Reading this will help you further.

Problem

I am working on a GUI and I've run into a problem. If I set a button, label, or other widget to have a background color, the tooltip for that widget also takes the same background color. I tried editing the style sheet for the tooltip specifically and setting a different background color but it doesn't work. I also tried editing the palette for the widget but changing the color scheme for the tooltip background or text doesn't work either. Is there another way I can do this? I'd like to have consistency between all my tooltips. Thanks!

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