From 3c7b74fae0f1faf6c416ccd8a197fa1a1e90439d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Kuhn <matthias@opengis.ch>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 18:06:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Allow clicking hyperlinks in HTML text edit widget

---
 src/gui/editorwidgets/qgstexteditwrapper.cpp | 8 ++++++--
 src/gui/editorwidgets/qgstexteditwrapper.h   | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/gui/editorwidgets/qgstexteditwrapper.cpp b/src/gui/editorwidgets/qgstexteditwrapper.cpp
index 304d096f373..eb5da83c3d1 100644
--- a/src/gui/editorwidgets/qgstexteditwrapper.cpp
+++ b/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 );
     }
diff --git a/src/gui/editorwidgets/qgstexteditwrapper.h b/src/gui/editorwidgets/qgstexteditwrapper.h
index 533087b77ff..d2380da404b 100644
--- a/src/gui/editorwidgets/qgstexteditwrapper.h
+++ b/src/gui/editorwidgets/qgstexteditwrapper.h
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 #include <QLineEdit>
 #include <QPlainTextEdit>
-#include <QTextEdit>
+#include <QTextBrowser>
 #include "qgis_gui.h"
 
 SIP_NO_FILE
@@ -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;