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How do I remove the space between QPlainTextEdit and its contents?


I'm using C++ and Qt on Windows to create a simple application which outputs some data to the screen using a QPlainTextEdit.

The problem is that there is a small internal margin between the QPlainTextEdit's border and the text as shown here:

The text in the QPlainTextEdit has been selected to highlight the gap.

I have tried using setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0) and setStyleSheet("padding:0;"), and using a QTextEdit or a QTextBrowser instead, but I still get that small margin.

Googling it only turned up this unanswered question on qtcentre.org.


Solution

  • Use QTextDocument::setDocumentMargin(). Setting it to zero does the trick. To obtain QTextDocument there's a method QPlainTextEdit::document().