QDateEdit Class | Qt Widgets 5.6

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# QDateEdit Class

The QDateEdit class provides a widget for editing dates based on the QDateTimeEdit widget. More...

Header: | #include <QDateEdit>
qmake: | QT += widgets
Inherits: | QDateTimeEdit

- List of all members, including inherited members

## Public Functions

| QDateEdit(QWidget *parent = Q_NULLPTR)
| QDateEdit(const QDate &date, QWidget *parent = Q_NULLPTR)
| ~QDateEdit()

- 45 public functions inherited from QDateTimeEdit
- 30 public functions inherited from QAbstractSpinBox
- 211 public functions inherited from QWidget

### Additional Inherited Members

- 16 properties inherited from QDateTimeEdit
- 12 properties inherited from QAbstractSpinBox
- 58 properties inherited from QWidget
- 3 public slots inherited from QDateTimeEdit
- 4 public slots inherited from QAbstractSpinBox
- 19 public slots inherited from QWidget
- 3 signals inherited from QDateTimeEdit
- 1 signal inherited from QAbstractSpinBox
- 3 signals inherited from QWidget
- 5 static public members inherited from QWidget
- 12 protected functions inherited from QDateTimeEdit
- 20 protected functions inherited from QAbstractSpinBox
- 35 protected functions inherited from QWidget
- 1 protected slot inherited from QWidget

## Detailed Description

The QDateEdit class provides a widget for editing dates based on the QDateTimeEdit widget.

Many of the properties and functions provided by QDateEdit are implemented in QDateTimeEdit. These are the relevant properties of this class:

- date holds the date displayed by the widget.
- minimumDate defines the minimum (earliest) date that can be set by the user.
- maximumDate defines the maximum (latest) date that can be set by the user.
- displayFormat contains a string that is used to format the date displayed in the widget.

| A date editing widget shown in the Windows Vista widget style.
| A date editing widget shown in the Macintosh widget style.
| A date editing widget shown in the Fusion widget style.

See also QTimeEdit and QDateTimeEdit.

## Member Function Documentation

### QDateEdit::QDateEdit(QWidget *parent = Q_NULLPTR)

Constructs an empty date editor with a parent.

### QDateEdit::QDateEdit(const QDate &date, QWidget *parent = Q_NULLPTR)

Constructs an empty date editor with a parent. The date is set to date.

### QDateEdit::~QDateEdit()

Destructor.