For the screenshot above, we need a stylesheet as follows:
QTabWidget::pane { /* The tab widget frame */
border-top: 2px solid #C2C7CB;
}
QTabWidget::tab-bar {
left: 5px; /* move to the right by 5px */
}
/* Style the tab using the tab sub-control. Note that
it reads QTabBar _not_ QTabWidget */
QTabBar::tab {
background: qlineargradient(x1: 0, y1: 0, x2: 0, y2: 1,
stop: 0 #E1E1E1, stop: 0.4 #DDDDDD,
stop: 0.5 #D8D8D8, stop: 1.0 #D3D3D3);
border: 2px solid #C4C4C3;
border-bottom-color: #C2C7CB; /* same as the pane color */
border-top-left-radius: 4px;
border-top-right-radius: 4px;
min-width: 8ex;
padding: 2px;
}
QTabBar::tab:selected, QTabBar::tab:hover {
background: qlineargradient(x1: 0, y1: 0, x2: 0, y2: 1,
stop: 0 #fafafa, stop: 0.4 #f4f4f4,
stop: 0.5 #e7e7e7, stop: 1.0 #fafafa);
}
QTabBar::tab:selected {
border-color: #9B9B9B;
border-bottom-color: #C2C7CB; /* same as pane color */
}
QTabBar::tab:!selected {
margin-top: 2px; /* make non-selected tabs look smaller */
}
Often we require the tabs to overlap to look like below:
For a tab widget that looks like above, we make use of negative margins. The resulting stylesheet looks like this:
QTabWidget::pane { /* The tab widget frame */
border-top: 2px solid #C2C7CB;
}
QTabWidget::tab-bar {
left: 5px; /* move to the right by 5px */
}
/* Style the tab using the tab sub-control. Note that
it reads QTabBar _not_ QTabWidget */
QTabBar::tab {
background: qlineargradient(x1: 0, y1: 0, x2: 0, y2: 1,
stop: 0 #E1E1E1, stop: 0.4 #DDDDDD,
stop: 0.5 #D8D8D8, stop: 1.0 #D3D3D3);
border: 2px solid #C4C4C3;
border-bottom-color: #C2C7CB; /* same as the pane color */
border-top-left-radius: 4px;
border-top-right-radius: 4px;
min-width: 8ex;
padding: 2px;
}
QTabBar::tab:selected, QTabBar::tab:hover {
background: qlineargradient(x1: 0, y1: 0, x2: 0, y2: 1,
stop: 0 #fafafa, stop: 0.4 #f4f4f4,
stop: 0.5 #e7e7e7, stop: 1.0 #fafafa);
}
QTabBar::tab:selected {
border-color: #9B9B9B;
border-bottom-color: #C2C7CB; /* same as pane color */
}
QTabBar::tab:!selected {
margin-top: 2px; /* make non-selected tabs look smaller */
}
/* make use of negative margins for overlapping tabs */
QTabBar::tab:selected {
/* expand/overlap to the left and right by 4px */
margin-left: -4px;
margin-right: -4px;
}
QTabBar::tab:first:selected {
margin-left: 0; /* the first selected tab has nothing to overlap with on the left */
}
QTabBar::tab:last:selected {
margin-right: 0; /* the last selected tab has nothing to overlap with on the right */
}
QTabBar::tab:only-one {
margin: 0; /* if there is only one tab, we don't want overlapping margins */
}
To move the tab bar to the center (as below), we require the following stylesheet:
QTabWidget::pane { /* The tab widget frame */
border-top: 2px solid #C2C7CB;
position: absolute;
top: -0.5em;
}
QTabWidget::tab-bar {
alignment: center;
}
/* Style the tab using the tab sub-control. Note that
it reads QTabBar _not_ QTabWidget */
QTabBar::tab {
background: qlineargradient(x1: 0, y1: 0, x2: 0, y2: 1,
stop: 0 #E1E1E1, stop: 0.4 #DDDDDD,
stop: 0.5 #D8D8D8, stop: 1.0 #D3D3D3);
border: 2px solid #C4C4C3;
border-bottom-color: #C2C7CB; /* same as the pane color */
border-top-left-radius: 4px;
border-top-right-radius: 4px;
min-width: 8ex;
padding: 2px;
}
QTabBar::tab:selected, QTabBar::tab:hover {
background: qlineargradient(x1: 0, y1: 0, x2: 0, y2: 1,
stop: 0 #fafafa, stop: 0.4 #f4f4f4,
stop: 0.5 #e7e7e7, stop: 1.0 #fafafa);
}
QTabBar::tab:selected {
border-color: #9B9B9B;
border-bottom-color: #C2C7CB; /* same as pane color */
}
The tear indicator and the scroll buttons can be further customized as follows:
QTabBar::tear {
image: url(tear_indicator.png);
}
QTabBar::scroller { /* the width of the scroll buttons */
width: 20px;
}
QTabBar QToolButton { /* the scroll buttons are tool buttons */
border-image: url(scrollbutton.png) 2;
border-width: 2px;
}
QTabBar QToolButton::right-arrow { /* the arrow mark in the tool buttons */
image: url(rightarrow.png);
}
QTabBar QToolButton::left-arrow {
image: url(leftarrow.png);
}
Since Qt 4.6 the close button can be customized as follow:
QTabBar::close-button {
image: url(close.png)
subcontrol-position: left;
}
QTabBar::close-button:hover {
image: url(close-hover.png)
}