On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:50:57 -0500, Matt Smith <melkor at orangepalantir.org> wrote: > You could use the palette. > > > MyLineEdit.palette().setColor(QtGui.QPalette.Base,QtGui.QColor('red')) That's buggy as palette() returns a const. You need to make a copy of the returned palette and modify that. See the roadmap. Phil