How can I make a Qt widget ignore style sheets set on parent widgets?

Question

When adding a QComboBox control in Qt Designer, I get a terrible looking, non-native control:

On digging further, it turns out that two of the parent controls, QParentWindow and QStackedWidget, have style sheets that QComboBox is inheriting. If I delete the custom styles, then I get a native QComboBox like the one on the left.

How can I have QComboBox (and widgets generally) NOT inherit parent styles? Or, how can I create a style for, say, QParentWindow, and do it so that it's local only and does not cascade?

Answer 1

you need to define a style and then assign it to that object:

QString settingStyle = " QGroupBox#groupBoxSettings {\
        background-color: rgb(248,248,248);\
        border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 255);\
        border-radius: 3px;\
        border-color:rgb(170, 170, 255);\
}";


ui->groupBoxSettings->setStyleSheet(settingStyle);

here "groupBoxSettings" is the object name. This way any thing inside the groupbox they'll have their own style.