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authorLeena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@qt.io>2017-06-06 16:24:07 +0200
committerKai Koehne <kai.koehne@qt.io>2017-06-20 07:10:22 +0000
commit9bda7d1d13f7bb93649ec1b805dd1b389977aa38 (patch)
tree4279b53352c8d57659d2f27e69c2261df0129b66 /src/webenginewidgets/doc/src
parent897d7d57d8d1b7a2aadb38294287d61816d5ba19 (diff)
Doc: Describe size limit for QWebEnginePage::setHtml()
The page content is used as a URL, which is limited to 2 MB by Chromium. Task-number: QTBUG-59369 Change-Id: Id0b81b577d1d997dd722c43e3b71b8979d86ee81 Reviewed-by: Kai Koehne <kai.koehne@qt.io> Reviewed-by: Viktor Engelmann <viktor.engelmann@qt.io>
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@@ -141,6 +141,12 @@
\warning This function works only for HTML. For other MIME types (such as XHTML or SVG),
setContent() should be used instead.
+ \note Content larger than 2 MB cannot be displayed, because setHtml()
+ converts the provided HTML to percent-encoding and places \c data: in front
+ of it to create the URL that it navigates to. Thereby, the provided code
+ becomes a URL that exceeds the 2 MB limit set by Chromium. If the content is
+ too large, the loadFinished() signal is triggered with \c success=false.
+
\sa load(), setContent(), QWebEnginePage::toHtml(), QWebEnginePage::setContent()
*/