QListWidget, insert linebreak for longer text

Question

I want to use QListWidget to display my content. But some of the content is quite long and I want to make the text continue on a second row instead of showing a horizontal scrollbar.

I use Qt Creator and I can't seem to find any options in the design view.

@jalone: what cell do you mean? Isn't that a table concept, and it is not QTableWidget? :) I think the OP just wishes to have line break rather than a new row so that if one gets the data, the whole text would be obtained, but I am just guessing here. :) — László Papp
– László Papp, Commented Jan 2, 2014 at 21:05

Max Go · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-02 21:23:19Z

Enable word wrapping by calling

void setWordWrap ( bool on )

and set text elide mode to Qt::ElideNone

void setTextElideMode ( Qt::TextElideMode mode )

Also you may check that you didn't set too small maximum height for your items in the list.

P.S. Because you wrote about horizontal scrollbar, you definitely want to have multiline text in item, but not the item on multiple rows.

If the list item is one long sequence of characters that does not contain word boundaries, the above does not work, i.e. the string does not wrap.
You might need to use something like QTextOption::WrapAnywhere flag, if your widget supports it ... or something similar

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