With C++, use QWebView to display HTML text, rather than a web page somewhere on the web

Question

Is it possible to programmaticaly create a (long) string of HTML text and then load it in a QWebView widget?

I'd like to be able to do something like:

void WebBrowser::SetText(string sText)
{
   ui->webView->setText(QString::fromUtf8(sText.c_str()));
}

but then of course the code above doesn't work because webView doesn't have a setText member function.

(I'm aware I could simply display HTML text in a label but I'd like to have some of functionality of QWebView to do things such as hypertext links to pages on the web, etc.)

MrEricSir · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-22 18:40:51Z

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The method you are looking for is called setHtml().

That said, at this point you should be considering switching to WebEngine, since Qt WebKit is a deprecated module. WebEngine also has a setHtml() method.

answered Jul 22, 2015 at 18:40

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Karpov Over a year ago

Works perfectly! Thanks for the advice re WebEngine.

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