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# QWebSettings Class Reference
[QtWebKit module]

The QWebSettings class provides an object to store the settings used by QWebPage and QWebFrame. More...

### Types

- enum FontFamily { StandardFont, FixedFont, SerifFont, SansSerifFont, CursiveFont, FantasyFont }
- enum FontSize { MinimumFontSize, MinimumLogicalFontSize, DefaultFontSize, DefaultFixedFontSize }
- enum WebAttribute { AutoLoadImages, JavascriptEnabled, JavaEnabled, PluginsEnabled, ..., DnsPrefetchEnabled }
- enum WebGraphic { MissingImageGraphic, MissingPluginGraphic, DefaultFrameIconGraphic, TextAreaSizeGripCornerGraphic }

### Methods

- QString defaultTextEncoding (self)
- QString fontFamily (self, FontFamily)
- int fontSize (self, FontSize)
- QString localStoragePath (self)
- resetAttribute (self, WebAttribute)
- resetFontFamily (self, FontFamily)
- resetFontSize (self, FontSize)
- setAttribute (self, WebAttribute, bool)
- setDefaultTextEncoding (self, QString)
- setFontFamily (self, FontFamily, QString)
- setFontSize (self, FontSize, int)
- setLocalStoragePath (self, QString)
- setUserStyleSheetUrl (self, QUrl)
- bool testAttribute (self, WebAttribute)
- QUrl userStyleSheetUrl (self)

### Static Methods

- clearIconDatabase ()
- clearMemoryCaches ()
- enablePersistentStorage (QString path = QString())
- QWebSettings globalSettings ()
- QString iconDatabasePath ()
- QIcon iconForUrl (QUrl)
- int maximumPagesInCache ()
- int offlineStorageDefaultQuota ()
- QString offlineStoragePath ()
- QString offlineWebApplicationCachePath ()
- int offlineWebApplicationCacheQuota ()
- setIconDatabasePath (QString)
- setMaximumPagesInCache (int)
- setObjectCacheCapacities (int, int, int)
- setOfflineStorageDefaultQuota (int)
- setOfflineStoragePath (QString)
- setOfflineWebApplicationCachePath (QString)
- setOfflineWebApplicationCacheQuota (int)
- setWebGraphic (WebGraphic, QPixmap)
- QPixmap webGraphic (WebGraphic)

## Detailed Description

The QWebSettings class provides an object to store the settings used by QWebPage and QWebFrame.

Each QWebPage object has its own QWebSettings object, which configures the settings for that page. If a setting is not configured, then it is looked up in the global settings object, which can be accessed using globalSettings().

QWebSettings allows configuration of browser properties, such as font sizes and families, the location of a custom style sheet, and generic attributes like JavaScript and plugins. Individual attributes are set using the setAttribute() function. The WebAttribute enum further describes each attribute.

QWebSettings also configures global properties such as the Web page memory cache and the Web page icon database, local database storage and offline applications storage.

### Enabling Plugins

Support for browser plugins can enabled by setting the PluginsEnabled attribute. For many applications, this attribute is enabled for all pages by setting it on the global settings object.

### Web Application Support

WebKit provides support for features specified in HTML 5 that improve the performance and capabilities of Web applications. These include client-side (offline) storage and the use of a Web application cache.

Client-side (offline) storage is an improvement over the use of cookies to store persistent data in Web applications. Applications can configure and enable the use of an offline storage database by calling the setOfflineStoragePath() with an appropriate file path, and can limit the quota for each application by calling setOfflineStorageDefaultQuota().

See also QWebPage.settings(), QWebView.settings(), and Web Browser.

## Type Documentation

### QWebSettings.FontFamily

This enum describes the generic font families defined by CSS 2. For more information see the CSS standard.

Constant | Value
--- | ---
`QWebSettings.StandardFont` | `0`
`QWebSettings.FixedFont` | `1`
`QWebSettings.SerifFont` | `2`
`QWebSettings.SansSerifFont` | `3`
`QWebSettings.CursiveFont` | `4`
`QWebSettings.FantasyFont` | `5`

### QWebSettings.FontSize

This enum describes the font sizes configurable through QWebSettings.

Constant | Value | Description
--- | --- | ---
`QWebSettings.MinimumFontSize` | `0` | The hard minimum font size.
`QWebSettings.MinimumLogicalFontSize` | `1` | The minimum logical font size that is applied after zooming with QWebFrame's textSizeMultiplier().
`QWebSettings.DefaultFontSize` | `2` | The default font size for regular text.
`QWebSettings.DefaultFixedFontSize` | `3` | The default font size for fixed-pitch text.

### QWebSettings.WebAttribute

This enum describes various attributes that are configurable through QWebSettings.

Constant | Value | Description
--- | --- | ---
`QWebSettings.AutoLoadImages` | `0` | Specifies whether images are automatically loaded in web pages.
`QWebSettings.DnsPrefetchEnabled` | ? | Specifies whether QtWebkit will try to pre-fetch DNS entries to speed up browsing. This only works as a global attribute. Only for Qt 4.6 and later.
`QWebSettings.JavascriptEnabled` | `1` | Enables or disables the running of JavaScript programs.
`QWebSettings.JavaEnabled` | `2` | Enables or disables Java applets. Currently Java applets are not supported.
`QWebSettings.PluginsEnabled` | `3` | Enables or disables plugins in Web pages.
`QWebSettings.PrivateBrowsingEnabled` | `4` | Private browsing prevents WebKit from recording visited pages in the history and storing web page icons.
`QWebSettings.JavascriptCanOpenWindows` | `5` | Specifies whether JavaScript programs can open new windows.
`QWebSettings.JavascriptCanAccessClipboard` | `6` | Specifies whether JavaScript programs can read or write to the clipboard.
`QWebSettings.DeveloperExtrasEnabled` | `7` | Enables extra tools for Web developers. Currently this enables the "Inspect" element in the context menu as well as the use of QWebInspector which controls the WebKit WebInspector for web site debugging.
`QWebSettings.LinksIncludedInFocusChain` | `8` | Specifies whether hyperlinks should be included in the keyboard focus chain.
`QWebSettings.ZoomTextOnly` | `9` | Specifies whether the zoom factor on a frame applies to only the text or all content.
`QWebSettings.PrintElementBackgrounds` | `10` | Specifies whether the background color and images are also drawn when the page is printed.
`QWebSettings.OfflineStorageDatabaseEnabled` | `11` | Specifies whether support for the HTML 5 offline storage feature is enabled or not. Disabled by default.
`QWebSettings.OfflineWebApplicationCacheEnabled` | `12` | Specifies whether support for the HTML 5 web application cache feature is enabled or not. Disabled by default.
`QWebSettings.LocalStorageEnabled` | `13` | Specifies whether support for the HTML 5 local storage feature is enabled or not. Disabled by default.
`QWebSettings.LocalStorageDatabaseEnabled` | `LocalStorageEnabled` | This enum value is deprecated. Use QWebSettings.LocalStorageEnabled instead.
`QWebSettings.LocalContentCanAccessRemoteUrls` | ? | Specifies whether locally loaded documents are allowed to access remote urls.

### QWebSettings.WebGraphic

This enums describes the standard graphical elements used in webpages.

Constant | Value | Description
--- | --- | ---
`QWebSettings.MissingImageGraphic` | `0` | The replacement graphic shown when an image could not be loaded.
`QWebSettings.MissingPluginGraphic` | `1` | The replacement graphic shown when a plugin could not be loaded.
`QWebSettings.DefaultFrameIconGraphic` | `2` | The default icon for QWebFrame.icon().
`QWebSettings.TextAreaSizeGripCornerGraphic` | `3` | The graphic shown for the size grip of text areas.

## Method Documentation

### QWebSettings.clearIconDatabase ()

Clears the icon database.

### QWebSettings.clearMemoryCaches ()

Frees up as much memory as possible by cleaning all memory caches such as page, object and font cache.

This function was introduced in Qt 4.6.

### QString QWebSettings.defaultTextEncoding (self)

Returns the default text encoding.

This function was introduced in Qt 4.6.

See also setDefaultTextEncoding().

### QWebSettings.enablePersistentStorage (QString path = QString())

Enables WebKit persistent data and sets the path to path. If the path is empty the path for persistent data is set to the user-specific data location specified by DataLocation.

This function was introduced in Qt 4.6.

See also localStoragePath().

### QString QWebSettings.fontFamily (self, FontFamily)

Returns the actual font family for the specified generic font family, which.

See also setFontFamily().

### int QWebSettings.fontSize (self, FontSize)

Returns the default font size for type.

See also setFontSize().

### QWebSettings QWebSettings.globalSettings ()

Returns the global settings object.

Any setting changed on the default object is automatically applied to all QWebPage instances where the particular setting is not overriden already.

### QString QWebSettings.iconDatabasePath ()

Returns the path of the icon database or an empty string if the icon database is disabled.

See also setIconDatabasePath() and clearIconDatabase().

### QIcon QWebSettings.iconForUrl (QUrl)

Returns the web site's icon for url.

If the web site does not specify an icon, or the icon is not in the database, a null QIcon is returned.

Note: The returned icon's size is arbitrary.

See also setIconDatabasePath().

### QString QWebSettings.localStoragePath (self)

Returns the path for HTML5 local storage.

This function was introduced in Qt 4.6.

See also setLocalStoragePath().

### int QWebSettings.maximumPagesInCache ()

Returns the maximum number of web pages that are kept in the memory cache.

See also setMaximumPagesInCache().

### int QWebSettings.offlineStorageDefaultQuota ()

Returns the value of the default quota for new offline storage databases.

This function was introduced in Qt 4.5.

See also setOfflineStorageDefaultQuota().

### QString QWebSettings.offlineStoragePath ()

Returns the path of the HTML5 offline storage or an empty string if the feature is disabled.

This function was introduced in Qt 4.5.

See also setOfflineStoragePath().

### QString QWebSettings.offlineWebApplicationCachePath ()

Returns the path of the HTML5 offline web application cache storage or an empty string if the feature is disabled.

This function was introduced in Qt 4.6.

See also setOfflineWebApplicationCachePath().

### int QWebSettings.offlineWebApplicationCacheQuota ()

Returns the value of the quota for the offline web application cache.

This function was introduced in Qt 4.6.

See also setOfflineWebApplicationCacheQuota().

### QWebSettings.resetAttribute (self, WebAttribute)

Resets the setting of attribute. This function has no effect on the global QWebSettings instance.

See also globalSettings().

### QWebSettings.resetFontFamily (self, FontFamily)

Resets the actual font family to the default font family, specified by which.

This function has no effect on the global QWebSettings instance.

### QWebSettings.resetFontSize (self, FontSize)

Resets the font size for type to the size specified in the global settings object.

This function has no effect on the global QWebSettings instance.

### QWebSettings.setAttribute (self, WebAttribute, bool)

Enables or disables the specified attribute feature depending on the value of on.

### QWebSettings.setDefaultTextEncoding (self, QString)

Specifies the default text encoding system.

The encoding, must be a string describing an encoding such as "utf-8", "iso-8859-1", etc. If left empty a default value will be used. For a more extensive list of encoding names see QTextCodec

This function was introduced in Qt 4.6.

See also defaultTextEncoding().

### QWebSettings.setFontFamily (self, FontFamily, QString)

Sets the actual font family to family for the specified generic family, which.

See also fontFamily().

### QWebSettings.setFontSize (self, FontSize, int)

Sets the font size for type to size.

See also fontSize().

### QWebSettings.setIconDatabasePath (QString)

Sets the path of the icon database to path. The icon database is used to store "favicons" associated with web sites.

path must point to an existing directory where the icons are stored.

Setting an empty path disables the icon database.

See also iconDatabasePath().

### QWebSettings.setLocalStoragePath (self, QString)

Sets the path for HTML5 local storage to path.

For more information on HTML5 local storage see the Web Storage standard.

Support for local storage can enabled by setting the LocalStorageEnabled attribute.

This function was introduced in Qt 4.6.

See also localStoragePath().

### QWebSettings.setMaximumPagesInCache (int)

Sets the maximum number of pages to hold in the memory page cache to pages.

The Page Cache allows for a nicer user experience when navigating forth or back to pages in the forward/back history, by pausing and resuming up to pages per page group.

For more information about the feature, please refer to:

http://webkit.org/blog/427/webkit-page-cache-i-the-basics/

See also maximumPagesInCache().

### QWebSettings.setObjectCacheCapacities (int, int, int)

Specifies the capacities for the memory cache for dead objects such as stylesheets or scripts.

The cacheMinDeadCapacity specifies the minimum number of bytes that dead objects should consume when the cache is under pressure.

cacheMaxDead is the maximum number of bytes that dead objects should consume when the cache is not under pressure.

totalCapacity specifies the maximum number of bytes that the cache should consume overall.

The cache is enabled by default. Calling setObjectCacheCapacities(0, 0, 0) will disable the cache. Calling it with one non-zero enables it again.

### QWebSettings.setOfflineStorageDefaultQuota (int)

Sets the value of the default quota for new offline storage databases to maximumSize.

This function was introduced in Qt 4.5.

See also offlineStorageDefaultQuota().

### QWebSettings.setOfflineStoragePath (QString)

Sets the path for HTML5 offline storage to path.

path must point to an existing directory where the databases are stored.

Setting an empty path disables the feature.

This function was introduced in Qt 4.5.

See also offlineStoragePath().

### QWebSettings.setOfflineWebApplicationCachePath (QString)

Sets the path for HTML5 offline web application cache storage to path.

An application cache acts like an HTTP cache in some sense. For documents that use the application cache via JavaScript, the loader mechinery will first ask the application cache for the contents, before hitting the network.

The feature is described in details at: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#appcache

path must point to an existing directory where the cache is stored.

Setting an empty path disables the feature.

This function was introduced in Qt 4.6.

See also offlineWebApplicationCachePath().

### QWebSettings.setOfflineWebApplicationCacheQuota (int)

Sets the value of the quota for the offline web application cache to maximumSize.

This function was introduced in Qt 4.6.

See also offlineWebApplicationCacheQuota().

### QWebSettings.setUserStyleSheetUrl (self, QUrl)

Specifies the location of a user stylesheet to load with every web page.

The location must be either a path on the local filesystem, or a data URL with UTF-8 and Base64 encoded data, such as:

"data:text/css;charset=utf-8;base64,cCB7IGJhY2tncm91bmQtY29sb3I6IHJlZCB9Ow==;"

See also userStyleSheetUrl().

### QWebSettings.setWebGraphic (WebGraphic, QPixmap)

Sets graphic to be drawn when QtWebKit needs to draw an image of the given type.

For example, when an image cannot be loaded the pixmap specified by MissingImageGraphic is drawn instead.

See also webGraphic().

### bool QWebSettings.testAttribute (self, WebAttribute)

Returns true if attribute is enabled; otherwise returns false.

### QUrl QWebSettings.userStyleSheetUrl (self)

Returns the location of the user stylesheet.

See also setUserStyleSheetUrl().

### QPixmap QWebSettings.webGraphic (WebGraphic)

Returns a previously set pixmap used to draw replacement graphics of the specified type.

For example, when an image cannot be loaded the pixmap specified by MissingImageGraphic is drawn instead.

See also setWebGraphic().