Change the selection color of a QTableWidget

Question

The default is for the selected row to be colored gray if the QTableWidget does not have focus, and orange if it does have focus. I would like to, instead, make the selected

Answer 1

You almost had it. Technically speaking, you're adjusting the selection color of the items within your table widget, so:

QTableWidget::item{ selection-background-color: red}

should do the trick.

Alternatively:

QTableWidget::item{ background-color: blue }
QTableWidget::item:selected{ background-color: red }