How to increase the padding (or margins) for an item/row in a QListWidget?

Question

We're looking for a way to increase the padding (or margins) for a QListWidget we are using in our application. We'd like to increase this for all four directions to give the text in our list some extra space

I've looked at the documentation for both QListWidget and QListWidgetItem and can't find anything. For QListWidget there's setContentsMargins which is inherited from QWidget but that is for the widget as a whole (rather than individual entries).

What can we do to solve this? Grateful for help!

Ledge

How are you creating the QListWidgetItem list for the QListWidget? – Shaven

What about setContentsMargins and/or setSpacing? – Halimeda

@Halimeda setSpacing did the trick, thanks! – Ledge

Cant believe that it is 2024 and we still have to hack this using style sheets. – Michaelmas

Answer 1

setSpacing(int) will increase the padding in all directions

(Thank you G.M. for your help!)

Ledge

is it possible to increase only the bottom spacing (margin ?) – Chairwoman

Answer 2

how about this

ui->listWidget->setStyleSheet("QListWidget {padding: 10px;} QListWidget::item { margin: 10px; }");

Berth

Answer 3

we use css selector for thise

list = QListWidget()
list.addItem("item 1")
list.addItem("item 2")
list.addItem("item 3")

list.setStyleSheet("""
    QListWidget {
        background-color: red;
        padding:20px;

    }
    QListWidget::item {
        margin:20px;
        background-color: blue;

    }
""")

Squall