What is the 'not equal to' selector in Qt stylesheets? - qt

The title said it all. Is there any style-sheet selector to select a widget that have properties not equal to a value?
Something like following:
QPushButton["something"!="xxx"] { background: red; }

The answer is no, there's no such selector available, according to what is said here:
Qt Style Sheets support all the selectors defined in CSS2.
and what is documented in CSS2.

A workaround could be to set some values for every instance and change them after for the specific case you want (if you can explicitly set the default value) :
QPushButton { background: red; }
QPushButton["something"=="xxx"] { background: /* Your default color */; }

Related

How I exclude more than one element with CSS selector group? [duplicate]

I'm trying to select input elements of all types except radio and checkbox.
Many people have shown that you can put multiple arguments in :not, but using type doesn't seem to work anyway I try it.
form input:not([type="radio"], [type="checkbox"]) {
/* css here */
}
Any ideas?
Why :not just use two :not:
input:not([type="radio"]):not([type="checkbox"])
Yes, it is intentional
If you're using SASS in your project, I've built this mixin to make it work the way we all want it to:
#mixin not($ignorList...) {
//if only a single value given
#if (length($ignorList) == 1){
//it is probably a list variable so set ignore list to the variable
$ignorList: nth($ignorList,1);
}
//set up an empty $notOutput variable
$notOutput: '';
//for each item in the list
#each $not in $ignorList {
//generate a :not([ignored_item]) segment for each item in the ignore list and put them back to back
$notOutput: $notOutput + ':not(#{$not})';
}
//output the full :not() rule including all ignored items
&#{$notOutput} {
#content;
}
}
it can be used in 2 ways:
Option 1: list the ignored items inline
input {
/*non-ignored styling goes here*/
#include not('[type="radio"]','[type="checkbox"]'){
/*ignored styling goes here*/
}
}
Option 2: list the ignored items in a variable first
$ignoredItems:
'[type="radio"]',
'[type="checkbox"]'
;
input {
/*non-ignored styling goes here*/
#include not($ignoredItems){
/*ignored styling goes here*/
}
}
Outputted CSS for either option
input {
/*non-ignored styling goes here*/
}
input:not([type="radio"]):not([type="checkbox"]) {
/*ignored styling goes here*/
}
Starting from CSS Selectors 4 using multiple arguments in the :not selector becomes possible (see here).
In CSS3, the :not selector only allows 1 selector as an argument. In level 4 selectors, it can take a selector list as an argument.
Example:
/* In this example, all p elements will be red, except for
the first child and the ones with the class special. */
p:not(:first-child, .special) {
color: red;
}
Unfortunately, browser support is somewhat new.
I was having some trouble with this, and the "X:not():not()" method wasn't working for me.
I ended up resorting to this strategy:
INPUT {
/* styles */
}
INPUT[type="radio"], INPUT[type="checkbox"] {
/* styles that reset previous styles */
}
It's not nearly as fun, but it worked for me when :not() was being pugnacious. It's not ideal, but it's solid.
If you install the "cssnext" Post CSS plugin, then you can safely start using the syntax that you want to use right now.
Using cssnext will turn this:
input:not([type="radio"], [type="checkbox"]) {
/* css here */
}
Into this:
input:not([type="radio"]):not([type="checkbox"]) {
/* css here */
}
https://cssnext.github.io/features/#not-pseudo-class

Priority of one css attribute value over another

For a button I have 3 possible classes: "state-normal", "state-focus" and "state-hover".
All have the same attributes (background, border, ...), but different values for the
attributes.
If a button gets "state-focus", I do not want to remove the class "state-normal".
If a button is "state-focus" and gets "state-hover", I do not want to remove the class
"state-focus".
In the browser language specification you can give a "quality"/priority to a language:
"Accept-Language: da, en-gb;q=0.8, en;q=0.7"
It would be great to do the same also in css:
.state-normal { background-color: #aaaaaa;q=0.5 }
.state-focus { background-color: #bbbbbb;q=0.7 }
.state-hover { background-color: #eeeeee;q=0.9 }
I know that there is nothing in CSS.
But, I know in jQuery UI they have kind of this, because they don't remove "ui-state-default" when they assign "ui-state-focus" to an element. How do they do it?
Is there another way to implement this with a trick (WITHOUT !IMPORTANT).
Thanks alot in advance
You can do this using CSS.
.state-normal { background-color: #aaaaaa;q=0.5 }
.state-normal.state-focus { background-color: #bbbbbb;q=0.7 }
.state-focus.state-hover { background-color: #eeeeee;q=0.9 }
But this implies that all classes mentioned in the rule will be present, i.e. an element will have both classes present. So an element with class state-focus will not have the background-color set as per the rule.
If you want to avoid that, then you can do this instead:
.state-normal { background-color: #aaaaaa;q=0.5 }
.state-focus, .state-normal.state-focus { background-color: #bbbbbb;q=0.7 }
.state-hover, .state-focus.state-hover { background-color: #eeeeee;q=0.9 }
EDIT: As per OP's request
CSS Specificity
CSS Selectors - MDN
Similar answer

CSS - Match a whole attribute value

HTML
<div data-whatever='something cols-16 else'>
</div>
This works:
Will work - CSS
[data-whatever*='cols-1'] {
background: red;
}
It will find the div and make it red.
Will not work - CSS
[data-whatever='cols-16'] {
background: red;
}
It will not find the div because there are other stuff in there as well.
Problem
The problem with the working CSS, is that it matches both cols-16, cols-1 and any other that starts with cols-1.
Question
Is it possible to find an attribute value, exact match?
In order to target the class cols-16 (even when it appears with other classes)
and not target the cols-1 class use this:
[data-whatever~='cols-16'] {
background: green;
}
You can see this working in this fiddle.
For more info see this post (Goto #16. - X[foo~="bar"]
The tilda (~) symbol allows us to target an attribute which has a
spaced-separated list of values.
try this:
[data-whatever~='cols-1'] {
background: red;
}
It worked for me if I didn't missunderstand your question
Edit: I just remembered the ~= randomly, tried it, and pasted it.
But I just googled a bit (I had curiosity and found This, it's quite interesting)
To ensure that it only matches cols-1 and not cols-16 without relying on the cols-16 style overriding the cols-1 style (below), you could:
[data-whatever='cols-1'],
[data-whatever^='cols-1 '],
[data-whatever*='cols-1 '],
[data-whatever$='cols-1'] {
background: red;
}
This matches data-whatever="cols-1", data-whatever="... cols-1", data-whatever="cols-1 ..." or data-whatever="... cols-1 ...".
JSFiddle example.
Thanks to aleation's answer: data-whatever~="cols-1" achieves the same as the above in just one selector.
--
At any rate your cols-16 styling could overwrite your cols-1 styling anyway, depending on the order it was presented:
[data-whatever*='cols-1'] {
background: red;
}
[data-whatever*='cols-16'] {
background: blue;
}
/* cols-1 will be red. cols-16 will be blue */
JSFiddle example.

Can the :not() pseudo-class have multiple arguments?

I'm trying to select input elements of all types except radio and checkbox.
Many people have shown that you can put multiple arguments in :not, but using type doesn't seem to work anyway I try it.
form input:not([type="radio"], [type="checkbox"]) {
/* css here */
}
Any ideas?
Why :not just use two :not:
input:not([type="radio"]):not([type="checkbox"])
Yes, it is intentional
If you're using SASS in your project, I've built this mixin to make it work the way we all want it to:
#mixin not($ignorList...) {
//if only a single value given
#if (length($ignorList) == 1){
//it is probably a list variable so set ignore list to the variable
$ignorList: nth($ignorList,1);
}
//set up an empty $notOutput variable
$notOutput: '';
//for each item in the list
#each $not in $ignorList {
//generate a :not([ignored_item]) segment for each item in the ignore list and put them back to back
$notOutput: $notOutput + ':not(#{$not})';
}
//output the full :not() rule including all ignored items
&#{$notOutput} {
#content;
}
}
it can be used in 2 ways:
Option 1: list the ignored items inline
input {
/*non-ignored styling goes here*/
#include not('[type="radio"]','[type="checkbox"]'){
/*ignored styling goes here*/
}
}
Option 2: list the ignored items in a variable first
$ignoredItems:
'[type="radio"]',
'[type="checkbox"]'
;
input {
/*non-ignored styling goes here*/
#include not($ignoredItems){
/*ignored styling goes here*/
}
}
Outputted CSS for either option
input {
/*non-ignored styling goes here*/
}
input:not([type="radio"]):not([type="checkbox"]) {
/*ignored styling goes here*/
}
Starting from CSS Selectors 4 using multiple arguments in the :not selector becomes possible (see here).
In CSS3, the :not selector only allows 1 selector as an argument. In level 4 selectors, it can take a selector list as an argument.
Example:
/* In this example, all p elements will be red, except for
the first child and the ones with the class special. */
p:not(:first-child, .special) {
color: red;
}
Unfortunately, browser support is somewhat new.
I was having some trouble with this, and the "X:not():not()" method wasn't working for me.
I ended up resorting to this strategy:
INPUT {
/* styles */
}
INPUT[type="radio"], INPUT[type="checkbox"] {
/* styles that reset previous styles */
}
It's not nearly as fun, but it worked for me when :not() was being pugnacious. It's not ideal, but it's solid.
If you install the "cssnext" Post CSS plugin, then you can safely start using the syntax that you want to use right now.
Using cssnext will turn this:
input:not([type="radio"], [type="checkbox"]) {
/* css here */
}
Into this:
input:not([type="radio"]):not([type="checkbox"]) {
/* css here */
}
https://cssnext.github.io/features/#not-pseudo-class

Qt Stylesheet syntax: targeting a specific button, not ALL buttons

I have a window with two buttons.
I'd like to decorate each one with a different stylesheet. They both have different object names, of course, but it seems that only the generic QPushButton stylesheet selector works.
I tried:
QPushButton#myBtnObjectName1 {
/* style definitions */
}
QPushButton#myBtnObjectName2 {
/* style definitions */
}
Tried the same with replacing the # with a ., or having the #myBtnObjetNameX only. Nothing works. Just:
QPushButton {
/* style definitions */
}
Am I using a wrong syntax? Or is this simply impossible without deriving from QPushButton in code and using a separate class name for each?
To match instances using the objectName, you can also use the selector ^=. According to the standard:
[att^=val] Represents an element with the att attribute whose value
begins with the prefix "val".
Example in Qt:
QPushButton[objectName^="push"] { background-color: red; }
A QPushButton called pushButton would be matched, but not an object called pbt.
You can use "accessibleName" in Qt Designer for this.
And in qss stylesheet:
more universal:
[accessibleName="alert-error"] {
color: red;
}
or be more specific:
QPushButton[accessibleName="bigred"] {
background-color: red;
}
Ah yes, the "AccessibleName" in Qt Designer needs to be set too, not just "ObjectName"

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