[QTBUG-92199] [REG] The color of QLineEdit and QPlainTextEdit placeholder text is not grayed-out if stylesheet was applied - Qt Bug Tracker

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Type: Bug
Status: Closed
Priority: P2: Important
Resolution: Done
Affects Version/s: 5.15.9, 5.15.3, 6.3.0
Fix Version/s: 5.15.12, 6.2.7, 6.4.1, 6.5.0 Beta1
Component/s: Widgets: Style Sheets
Labels:
- Reported_by_support_1H22
- Reported_by_support_standard
Environment:
macOS 10.14.6, Qt 5.15.3, Qt 5.15.9, Qt 6.3.0

Platform/s:

macOS, Windows
Commits:
df0b70eece (qt/qtbase/dev) df0b70eece (qt/tqtc-qtbase/dev) b3448282ef (qt/tqtc-qtbase/5.15) 09888b58d7 (qt/tqtc-qtbase/6.2) c38a954d9f (qt/qtbase/6.4) c38a954d9f (qt/tqtc-qtbase/6.4)

Description

If you set text color of a QLineEdit with stylesheet, for example:

ui->lineEdit->setPlaceHolderText("placeholder");

ui->lineEdit->setStyleSheet("QLineEdit {color:black}");

The placeholder text is not grayed out. Instead it is displayed black. This is a regression. It does not happen with Qt 5.15.2, but happens in Qt 5.15.3. Also tried Qt 5.15.4 preview version, it didn't fix it.

This is so disappointing I bought a commercial license so that I can use Qt 5.15.3 to fix an annoying bug. Now I got an even more annoying bug... money well spent