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) }