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!

How are you creating the `QListWidgetItem` list for the `QListWidget`? — Developer Paul, Mar 21 '18 at 14:58
What about [`setContentsMargins`](http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qwidget.html#setContentsMargins) and/or [`setSpacing`](http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qlistview.html#spacing-prop)? — G.M., Mar 21 '18 at 15:00

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 23 '18 at 11:24

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setSpacing(int) will increase the padding in all directions

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

answered Apr 23 '18 at 11:24

sunyata

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is it possible to increase only the bottom spacing (margin ?) – Aminos May 20 '21 at 15:29

score 6 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 22 '18 at 07:00

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how about this

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

edited Mar 22 '18 at 07:00

eyllanesc

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answered Mar 22 '18 at 06:59

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 24 '22 at 06:55

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;

    }
""")

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

3 Answers3

we use css selector for thise

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