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JPFrancoia
JPFrancoia

Reputation: 5629

QWebEnginePage: disable links

I'm porting a software from PyQt4 to PyQt5.

With PyQt4, I used to use a QWebView to render html strings (so, no web browsing, just some rendering). Therefore, I could disable "browsing" with this setting:

self.page().setLinkDelegationPolicy(QtWebKit.QWebPage.DelegateAllLinks)

Where self was my QWebView.

However, I'm now forced to QtWebEngineWidgets.QWebEngineView. It's not that bad, but I can't use the previous setting anymore.

QtWebEngineWidgets.QWebEnginePage doesn't have the DelegateAllLinks setting.

I would like to disable all the links in the view, so the user won't be able to click one of them and mess up with my software.

Do you have any idea ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1057

Answers (1)

ekhumoro
ekhumoro

Reputation: 120718

Firstly: are you absolutely sure you need to use a full web browser just to render some static html? The QTextBrowser class only supports a limited subset of HTML4, but if your html is simple it would be a much better choice than a super-heavyweight class like QWebEngineView.

Anyway, if you really must use the QWebEngineView class, the only alternative to setLinkDelegationPolicy is to reimplement the acceptNavigationRequest method of the web-page:

class WebEnginePage(QtWebEngineWidgets.QWebEnginePage):
    def acceptNavigationRequest(self, url, navtype, mainframe):
        return False

Upvotes: 4

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