How to place an icon onto a QLineEdit?

Question

There is a Search field with the magnification-lens and a greyed out \"search\" keyword at the top right corner of stackoverflow.com web site:

Answer 1

From QT 5.2 onwards you can do something like this. You should use pointers if you want to make it more flexible:

QIcon *ico;
ico = new QIcon(":/images/search.ico");
searchEdit->addAction(*ico, QLineEdit::LeadingPosition);