How to change QPushButton text and background color

Question

I am using following code to connect `QMenu` to `QPushButton`. When button is clicked a pull-down menu with multiple sub-menu's items is shown. ``` button=QPushButton() button.setText("Press Me") font=QtGui.QFont() button.setFont(font) button.setSizePolicy(ToolButtonSizePolicy) button.setPopupMode(QtGui.QToolButton.InstantPopup) menu=QtGui.QMenu() button.setMenu(menu) menuItem1=menu.addAction('Menu Item1') menuItem2=menu.addAction('Menu Item2') ``` Now depending on a condition I would like to customize `QPushButton` display by giving it a text and background color. The following line of code (which is supposed to change background color) has no effect on `QPushButton` connected to QMenu. ``` button.setStyleSheet('QPushButton {background-color: #A3C1DA}') ``` I would like to know how to change the background color of `QPushButton` as well as button's text's color.

Accepted Answer

Apart from some inconsistencies with your code example setting the background color and text color of a `QPushButton` works just fine with:

```
setStyleSheet('QPushButton {background-color: #A3C1DA; color: red;}')
```

Example (using PySide):

```
from PySide import QtGui

app = QtGui.QApplication([])

button = QtGui.QPushButton()
button.setStyleSheet('QPushButton {background-color: #A3C1DA; color: red;}')
button.setText('Press Me')
menu = QtGui.QMenu()
menuItem1 = menu.addAction('Menu Item1')
menuItem2 = menu.addAction('Menu Item2')

button.setMenu(menu)
button.show()

app.exec_()
```

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How to change QPushButton text and background color

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