How to make widget grow outside of its parent widget

[supermanfg]

Hello!
Let's say I have a QLineEdit widget inside a QDialog and this QLineEdit widget grows when you type something in it (it grows so you can always see all the text in the QLineEdit).
Is there a way to allow that QLineEdit widget to grow outside of the QDialog it's in without making the QDialog (its parent) bigger?

Thanks!

[divanov]

Use QScrollArea.

[supermanfg]

The thing is I want the QLineEdit to completely stay visible. So it would have to be partly outside of the dialog.

[axeljaeger]

That is not possible. Child widgets get always clipped to their parents. There is a couple of dirty stuff that you can do to fake such behavior but I strongly recommend not to waste any time in non standard behavior if you want to get your app done. What is the usecase of such behavior?