How to place an icon onto a QLineEdit?

Question

There is a Search field with the magnification-lens and a greyed out \"search\" keyword at the top right corner of stackoverflow.com web site:

Answer 1

Here's a way to achieve this with stylesheets only:

QLineEdit {
    background: #f3f3f3;
    background-image: url(:Images/search.svg); /* actual size, e.g. 16x16 */
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: left;
    color: #252424;
    font-family: SegoeUI;
    font-size: 12px;
    padding: 2 2 2 20; /* left padding (last number) must be more than the icon's width */
}

Here's the result:

It's still not perfect. You don't have much influence over the icon's position.