How can a text box be created in PyQt5?

9 months ago

Emily Johnson

2 minutes

To create a text box in PyQt5, you can use either the QLineEdit or QTextEdit class. Here is a simple example code demonstrating how to create a text box:

import sys
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QWidget, QLineEdit

class TextBoxExample(QWidget):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.initUI()
        
    def initUI(self):
        self.textbox = QLineEdit(self)
        self.textbox.move(20, 20)
        self.textbox.resize(280, 40)
        
        self.setGeometry(100, 100, 320, 100)
        self.setWindowTitle('Text Box Example')
        self.show()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    ex = TextBoxExample()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

In this example, we have created a basic application window and added a QLineEdit text box to the window. You can adjust the parameters of the move() and resize() methods to set the position and size of the text box. Finally, call the show() method to display the window.

You can also use the QTextEdit class to create a multi-line text box, with similar functionality. Hopefully this can help you create text box applications in PyQt5.