QPlainTextEdit is a multiline text area in PyQt. To set the text, we use its method insertPlainText(). We can set its position and size using the methods move() and resize().
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Textarea
The example below creates a text area using PyQt5.
We will create the usual QMainWindow to add the widget to. It is just for plain text, like notepad. To add new lines we add the \n character.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 | # PyQt5 text area # pythonprogramminglanguage.com import sys from PyQt5.Qt import QApplication, QClipboard from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtWidgets from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QMainWindow, QWidget, QPlainTextEdit from PyQt5.QtCore import QSize class ExampleWindow(QMainWindow): def __init__(self): QMainWindow.__init__(self) self.setMinimumSize(QSize(440, 240)) self.setWindowTitle("PyQt5 Textarea example") # Add text field self.b = QPlainTextEdit(self) self.b.insertPlainText("You can write text here.\n") self.b.move(10,10) self.b.resize(400,200) if __name__ == "__main__": app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv) mainWin = ExampleWindow() mainWin.show() sys.exit( app.exec_() ) |