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# QTextTableCell Class Reference
[QtGui module]

The QTextTableCell class represents the properties of a cell in a QTextTable. More...

### Methods

- __init__ (self)
- __init__ (self, QTextTableCell o)
- int column (self)
- int columnSpan (self)
- QTextCursor firstCursorPosition (self)
- QTextCharFormat format (self)
- bool isValid (self)
- QTextCursor lastCursorPosition (self)
- int row (self)
- int rowSpan (self)
- setFormat (self, QTextCharFormat format)

### Special Methods

- bool __eq__ (self, QTextTableCell other)
- bool __ne__ (self, QTextTableCell other)

## Detailed Description

The QTextTableCell class represents the properties of a cell in a QTextTable.

Table cells are pieces of document structure that belong to a table. The table orders cells into particular rows and columns; cells can also span multiple columns and rows.

Cells are usually created when a table is inserted into a document with QTextCursor.insertTable(), but they are also created and destroyed when a table is resized.

Cells contain information about their location in a table; you can obtain the row() and column() numbers of a cell, and its rowSpan() and columnSpan().

The format() of a cell describes the default character format of its contents. The firstCursorPosition() and lastCursorPosition() functions are used to obtain the extent of the cell in the document.

See also QTextTable and QTextTableFormat.

## Method Documentation

### QTextTableCell.__init__ (self)

Constructs an invalid table cell.

See also isValid().

### QTextTableCell.__init__ (self, QTextTableCell o)

Copy constructor. Creates a new QTextTableCell object based on the other cell.

### int QTextTableCell.column (self)

Returns the number of the column in the table that contains this cell.

See also row().

### int QTextTableCell.columnSpan (self)

Returns the number of columns this cell spans. The default is 1.

See also rowSpan().

### QTextCursor QTextTableCell.firstCursorPosition (self)

Returns the first valid cursor position in this cell.

See also lastCursorPosition().

### QTextCharFormat QTextTableCell.format (self)

Returns the cell's character format.

See also setFormat().

### bool QTextTableCell.isValid (self)

Returns true if this is a valid table cell; otherwise returns false.

### QTextCursor QTextTableCell.lastCursorPosition (self)

Returns the last valid cursor position in this cell.

See also firstCursorPosition().

### int QTextTableCell.row (self)

Returns the number of the row in the table that contains this cell.

See also column().

### int QTextTableCell.rowSpan (self)

Returns the number of rows this cell spans. The default is 1.

See also columnSpan().

### QTextTableCell.setFormat (self, QTextCharFormat format)

Sets the cell's character format to format. This can for example be used to change the background color of the entire cell:

QTextTableCell cell = table->cellAt(2, 3); QTextCharFormat format = cell.format(); format.setBackground(Qt.blue); cell.setFormat(format);

Note that the cell's row or column span cannot be changed through this function. You have to use QTextTable.mergeCells and QTextTable.splitCell instead.

This function was introduced in Qt 4.2.

See also format().

### bool QTextTableCell.__eq__ (self, QTextTableCell other)

### bool QTextTableCell.__ne__ (self, QTextTableCell other)