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Eduardo Alejandro Leyva
Eduardo Alejandro Leyva

Reputation: 445

how to make hyperlink to launch mail on QTextEdit in pyqt

I want a hyperlink to launch a mail client in a QTextEdit. I tried this but nothing happens when clicking the link:

self.text_area = QTextEdit()
self.text_area.setReadOnly(True)
self.text_area.setText(u'<p> Jhon Doe <a href='"'mailto:[email protected]'"'>[email protected]</a>  </p>')
self.text_area.setTextInteractionFlags(Qt.LinksAccessibleByMouse)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1674

Answers (1)

eyllanesc
eyllanesc

Reputation: 243897

Use QTextBrowser, which is a specialized class that provides a rich text browser with hypertext navigation that inherits from QTextEdit, so it has at least the same QTextEdit capabilities.

import sys

from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QTextBrowser

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    text_area = QTextBrowser()
    text_area.setText(u'<p> Jhon Doe <a href='"'mailto:[email protected]'"'>[email protected]</a>  </p>')
    text_area.setOpenExternalLinks(True)
    text_area.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

Upvotes: 5

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