CSS Selector for widget Class

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Emmanuel_Joshua | 2021-02-15 23:30:25 UTC | #1

I've a widget given a class shown below:

widget.setProperty("cssClass", "welcome")

To select and style this widget from my css file (style.css) failed to work. Here's the selector I tried:

QWidget[cssClass="welcome] { //styles go here

}

What I'm I doing wrong here? Is the selector correct?

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CSS Selector for widget Class was written by Martin Fitzpatrick .

Martin Fitzpatrick has been developing Python/Qt apps for 8 years. Building desktop applications to make data-analysis tools more user-friendly, Python was the obvious choice. Starting with Tk, later moving to wxWidgets and finally adopting PyQt.

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