PyQt5 - Background color for pressed check box in unchecked state Last Updated : 22 Apr, 2020 Summarize Comments Improve Suggest changes Share Like Article Like Report In this article we will see how to set the color to the check box when it get pressed while in the unchecked state. By default no pressed color is set to the label part of the check box, although indicator by default has a light blue background color when it get pressed. In order to add background color to the check box when pressed from unchecked state we have to edit the style sheet code which is used with check box object. Below is the style sheet code. QCheckBox::unchecked:pressed { background-color : pink; } Below is the implementation. Python3 1== # importing libraries from PyQt5.QtWidgets import * from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui from PyQt5.QtGui import * from PyQt5.QtCore import * import sys class Window(QMainWindow): def __init__(self): super().__init__() # setting title self.setWindowTitle("Python ") # setting geometry self.setGeometry(100, 100, 600, 400) # calling method self.UiComponents() # showing all the widgets self.show() # method for widgets def UiComponents(self): # creating the check-box checkbox = QCheckBox('Geek ?', self) # setting geometry of check box checkbox.setGeometry(200, 150, 100, 30) # adding background color to the pressed check box label part # when it is in unchecked state checkbox.setStyleSheet("QCheckBox::unchecked:pressed" "{" "background-color : pink;" "}") # create pyqt5 app App = QApplication(sys.argv) # create the instance of our Window window = Window() # start the app sys.exit(App.exec()) Output : Comment More infoAdvertise with us Next Article PyQt5 - Background color for pressed check box in unchecked state R rakshitarora Follow Improve Article Tags : Python Python-PyQt Python-gui Practice Tags : python Similar Reads PyQt5 – Background color for pressed check box in checked state In this article we will see how to set the color to the check box when it get pressed while in the checked state. By default no pressed color is set to the label part of the check box, although indicator by default has a light blue background color when it get pressed. In order to add background col 2 min read PyQt5 – Background color for pressed check box in intermediate state In this article we will see how to set the color to the check box when it get pressed while in the intermediate state. By default no pressed color is set to the label part of the check box, although indicator by default has a light blue background color when it get pressed. Intermediate state is a s 2 min read PyQt5 - Background color of unchecked Check Box In this article we will see how to set color to the check box i.e to the label part when the check box is in unchecked state. We can set background color to the check box but that will remain same for all the states. In order to set background color for the unchecked state we have to change the styl 2 min read PyQt5 – Setting background image to pressed indicator from unchecked Check Box In this article we will see how we can add background image to the pressed indicator which was initially in the unchecked state. In order to do this we have to change the style sheet code associated with the check box object and have to add background image to the indicator of unchecked state when i 2 min read PyQt5 – How to change check box background color when pressed In this article we will see how we can set background color to the check box when it is pressed. By default there is no background color associated with it. This background color will only appear check box get pressed. In order to add background color to the check box we have to change the style she 2 min read Like