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Inheritance diagram of QTextBlockFormat

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The PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat class provides formatting information for blocks of text in a PySide.QtGui.QTextDocument .

A document is composed of a list of blocks, represented by PySide.QtGui.QTextBlock objects. Each block can contain an item of some kind, such as a paragraph of text, a table, a list, or an image. Every block has an associated PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat that specifies its characteristics.

To cater for left-to-right and right-to-left languages you can set a block’s direction with setDirection(). Paragraph alignment is set with PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.setAlignment() . Margins are controlled by PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.setTopMargin() , PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.setBottomMargin() , PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.setLeftMargin() , PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.setRightMargin() . Overall indentation is set with PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.setIndent() , the indentation of the first line with PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.setTextIndent() .

Line breaking can be enabled and disabled with PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.setNonBreakableLines() .

The brush used to paint the paragraph’s background is set with PySide.QtGui.QTextFormat.setBackground() , and other aspects of the text’s appearance can be customized by using the PySide.QtGui.QTextFormat.setProperty() function with the OutlinePen , ForegroundBrush , and BackgroundBrushQTextFormat.Property values.

If a text block is part of a list, it can also have a list format that is accessible with the listFormat() function.

class PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat
class PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat(QTextBlockFormat)
class PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat(fmt)
Parameters:

Constructs a new PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat .

Creates a new block format with the same attributes as the given text format.

PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.alignment()
Return type:PySide.QtCore.Qt.Alignment

Returns the paragraph’s alignment.

PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.bottomMargin()
Return type:PySide.QtCore.qreal

Returns the paragraph’s bottom margin.

PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.indent()
Return type:PySide.QtCore.int

Returns the paragraph’s indent.

PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.leftMargin()
Return type:PySide.QtCore.qreal

Returns the paragraph’s left margin.

PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.nonBreakableLines()
Return type:PySide.QtCore.bool

Returns true if the lines in the paragraph are non-breakable; otherwise returns false.

PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.pageBreakPolicy()
Return type:PySide.QtGui.QTextFormat.PageBreakFlags

Returns the currently set page break policy for the paragraph. The default is QTextFormat.PageBreak_Auto .

PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.rightMargin()
Return type:PySide.QtCore.qreal

Returns the paragraph’s right margin.

PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.setAlignment(alignment)
Parameters:alignmentPySide.QtCore.Qt.Alignment
PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.setBottomMargin(margin)
Parameters:marginPySide.QtCore.qreal

Sets the paragraph’s bottom margin .

PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.setIndent(indent)
Parameters:indentPySide.QtCore.int

Sets the paragraph’s indentation . Margins are set independently of indentation with PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.setLeftMargin() and PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.setTextIndent() . The indentation is an integer that is multiplied with the document-wide standard indent, resulting in the actual indent of the paragraph.

PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.setLeftMargin(margin)
Parameters:marginPySide.QtCore.qreal

Sets the paragraph’s left margin . Indentation can be applied separately with PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.setIndent() .

PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.setNonBreakableLines(b)
Parameters:bPySide.QtCore.bool

If b is true, the lines in the paragraph are treated as non-breakable; otherwise they are breakable.

PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.setPageBreakPolicy(flags)
Parameters:flagsPySide.QtGui.QTextFormat.PageBreakFlags
PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.setRightMargin(margin)
Parameters:marginPySide.QtCore.qreal

Sets the paragraph’s right margin .

PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.setTabPositions(tabs)
Parameters:tabs
PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.setTextIndent(aindent)
Parameters:aindentPySide.QtCore.qreal

Sets the indent for the first line in the block. This allows the first line of a paragraph to be indented differently to the other lines, enhancing the readability of the text.

PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.setTopMargin(margin)
Parameters:marginPySide.QtCore.qreal

Sets the paragraph’s top margin .

PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.tabPositions()
Return type:

Returns a list of tab positions defined for the text block.

PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.textIndent()
Return type:PySide.QtCore.qreal

Returns the paragraph’s text indent.

PySide.QtGui.QTextBlockFormat.topMargin()
Return type:PySide.QtCore.qreal

Returns the paragraph’s top margin.