Allow clicking hyperlinks in HTML text edit widget

Author: m-kuhn

src/gui/editorwidgets/qgstexteditwrapper.cpp

@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ QWidget *QgsTextEditWrapper::createWidget( QWidget *parent )
   {
     if ( config( QStringLiteral( "UseHtml" ) ).toBool() )
     {
-      return new QTextEdit( parent );
+      return new QTextBrowser( parent );
     }
     else
     {
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ QWidget *QgsTextEditWrapper::createWidget( QWidget *parent )
 
 void QgsTextEditWrapper::initWidget( QWidget *editor )
 {
-  mTextEdit = qobject_cast<QTextEdit *>( editor );
+  mTextEdit = qobject_cast<QTextBrowser *>( editor );
   mPlainTextEdit = qobject_cast<QPlainTextEdit *>( editor );
   mLineEdit = qobject_cast<QLineEdit *>( editor );
 
@@ -223,7 +223,11 @@ void QgsTextEditWrapper::setWidgetValue( const QVariant &val )
     if ( val != value() )
     {
       if ( config( QStringLiteral( "UseHtml" ) ).toBool() )
+      {
         mTextEdit->setHtml( v );
+        mTextEdit->setTextInteractionFlags( Qt::LinksAccessibleByMouse );
+        mTextEdit->setOpenExternalLinks( true );
+      }
       else
         mTextEdit->setPlainText( v );
     }

src/gui/editorwidgets/qgstexteditwrapper.h

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 #include <QLineEdit>
 #include <QPlainTextEdit>
-#include <QTextEdit>
+#include <QTextBrowser>
 #include "qgis_gui.h"
 
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@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ class GUI_EXPORT QgsTextEditWrapper : public QgsEditorWidgetWrapper
     void textChanged( const QString &text );
 
   private:
-    QTextEdit *mTextEdit = nullptr;
+    QTextBrowser *mTextEdit = nullptr;
     QPlainTextEdit *mPlainTextEdit = nullptr;
     QLineEdit *mLineEdit = nullptr;
     QPalette mReadOnlyPalette;