PyQt5 – Background color of intermediate indicator in Check Box Last Updated : 22 Apr, 2020 Comments Improve Suggest changes Like Article Like Report In this article we will see how to set background color to an indicator of check box when it is in intermediate state. By default the check box have only two states although we can make a third state as well which is not checked or unchecked. It is inbetween, both of these states refer as intermediate state with the help of setTristate method. In order to add background color to indicator in intermediate state we have to change the style sheet of the indicator for intermediate state below is the style sheet code. QCheckBox::indicator:indeterminate { background-color : blue; } Note : In order to see this we have to make third state first without that it will not work. 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) # creating tri-state check box checkbox.setTristate(True) # adding background color to the indicator # when it is in intermediate state checkbox.setStyleSheet("QCheckBox::indicator:indeterminate" "{" "background-color : blue;" "}") # 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 of intermediate indicator in Check Box R rakshitarora Follow Improve Article Tags : Python Python-PyQt Python-gui Practice Tags : python Similar Reads PyQt5 – Background image of intermediate indicator in Check Box In this article we will see how to set background image to an indicator of check box when it is in intermediate state. By default the check box have only two states although we can make a third state as well which is not checked or unchecked it is inbetween both of these states refer as intermediate 2 min read PyQt5 – Background color of intermediate 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 intermediate state. We can set background color to the check box but that will remain same for all the states. Intermediate state is a state inbetween checked and unchecked state it is the th 2 min read PyQt5 – Background image of indicator when hover over intermediate Check Box In this article we will see how to set background image to a indicator of check box when it is in intermediate state and mouse hover over it. By default the check box have only two states although we can make a third state as well which is not checked or unchecked it is inbetween both of these state 2 min read PyQt5 - Background color of un-checked indicator in Check Box In this article we will see how to set background color to an indicator of check box when it is in unchecked state. When checked it will revert back to its default form and for unchecked state we can set the background color. In order to add background color to indicator in un-checked state we have 1 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 Like