How to change color of QTextEdit widget

Question

I'm trying to change the color of a QTextEdit to black, regardless if there's text or none, to give it a terminal look. It seems to me that the default white background color of QTextEdit (PyQy4) can't be changed by means that are otherwise working for other Qt widgets. I have tried the following:

w.setTextBackgroundColor(QColor(0,0,0))

w.setAutoFillBackground(True)

p = w.palette()
p.setColor(w.backgroundRole(), QColor(0,0,0))
w.setPalette(p)

Respectable

Answer 1

A simple solution is using qss:

w.setStyleSheet("background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);")

If you want to use QPalette you should apply it to the viewport():

p = w.viewport().palette()
p.setColor(w.viewport().backgroundRole(), QtGui.QColor(0,0,0))
wt.viewport().setPalette(p)

Hexamethylenetetramine

Thank you. viewport() worked. setStyleSheet() didn't tho. – Respectable

@Respectable It works for me both. Maybe the style you use is blocking that property. :P – Hexamethylenetetramine

Both options work for me, though with the stylesheet method the scrollbar is also affected (which looked weird for me). – Pokeweed