How do I style a Qt Widget not its children with stylesheets?

Question

I have a:

class Box : public QWidget

and it has

this->setLayout(new QGridLayout(this));

I tried doin

Answer 1

To be more precise I could have used:

QWidget#idName {
    border: 1px solid grey;
}

or

Box {
    border: 1px solid grey;
}

The latter is easier, in my opinion, as it doesn't require the use of id names.

The main problem with why these weren't working though is because this is considered a custom widget and therefore needs a custom paint event:

 void Box::paintEvent(QPaintEvent *) {
     QStyleOption opt;
     opt.init(this);
     QPainter p(this);
     style()->drawPrimitive(QStyle::PE_Widget, &opt, &p, this);
 }

This was taken from: Qt Stylesheet for custom widget

Answer 2

You need to identify the object class and instance, like in regular CSS.

QWidget#BoxName
{
    border-radius: 5px;
    border: 1px solid black;
    border: 2px groove gray;
}

This is the same answer as here: Get variable name of Qt Widget (for use in Stylesheet)?

box->setStyleSheet(QString::fromUtf8("QWidget#box\n"
"{\n"
"    border-radius: 5px;\n"
"    border: 1px solid black;\n"
"    border: 2px groove gray;\n"
"}\n"
""));