PyQt5 QCalendarWidget - Setting Background Color Last Updated : 21 Jun, 2020 Comments Improve Suggest changes Like Article Like Report In this article we will see how we can set background color to the QCalendarWidget, setting background color to QCalendarWidget is not like setting border to the other widgets, calendar is widget which has many child i.e component we can set background color to independent component as well. Below is how the calendar with background color will look like In order to do this we will use setStyleSheet method with the QCalendarWidget object, below is the style sheet code background-color : lightgreen; Note : This will remove all the previous style sheet of the calendar 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 # QCalendarWidget Class class Calendar(QCalendarWidget): # constructor def __init__(self, parent = None): super(Calendar, self).__init__(parent) class Window(QMainWindow): def __init__(self): super().__init__() # setting title self.setWindowTitle("Python ") # setting geometry self.setGeometry(100, 100, 500, 400) # calling method self.UiComponents() # showing all the widgets self.show() # method for components def UiComponents(self): # creating a QCalendarWidget object # as Calendar class inherits QCalendarWidget self.calendar = Calendar(self) # setting cursor self.calendar.setCursor(Qt.PointingHandCursor) # setting size of the calendar self.calendar.resize(350, 240) # move the calendar self.calendar.move(10, 10) # setting stylesheet # adding background color to the calendar self.calendar.setStyleSheet("background-color : lightgreen;") # 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 QCalendarWidget - Setting Background Color R rakshitarora Follow Improve Article Tags : Python Python-PyQt Python-gui Python PyQt-QCalendarWidget Practice Tags : python Similar Reads PyQt5 QCalendarWidget - Setting Background Role In this article, we will see how we set the background role to the QCalendarWidget. Background role defines the brush from the calendarâs palette that is used to render the background. If no explicit background role is set, the calendar inherits its parent widgetâs background role. In order to do t 2 min read PyQt5 QColorDialog - Setting Background Color In this article we will see how we can set background color to the QColorDialog. QColorDialog is the pop up type widget in the PyQt5 used for selecting and creating colors. Color dialog is a huge widget that consists of lots of child widgets so it become tough to set stylesheet to the color dialog a 2 min read PyQt5 QCalendarWidget - Setting Border In this article we will see how we can set border to the QCalendarWidget, setting border to QCalendarWidget is not like setting border to the other widgets, calendar is widget which has many child i.e component we can set border to independent component as well. Below is how the calendar with border 2 min read PyQt5 QCalendarWidget - Background Color to the tool buttons In this article we will see how we can set background color to the tool buttons of the QCalendarWidget. Tool buttons are the buttons available at the top i.e buttons to go to left and right page, setting border to QCalendarWidget is not like setting background color to the other widgets, calendar is 2 min read PyQt5 QCalendarWidget - Background Color to the Abstract View In this article we will see how we can set background color to the abstract view of the QCalendarWidget. In calendar abstract view is the view that consist the dates inside it, setting background color to QCalendarWidget is not like setting background color to the other widgets, calendar is widget w 2 min read Like