Remove selected items from listWidget
One way to remove item from QListWidget is to use QListWidget::takeItem which removes and returns the item : QList<QListWidgetItem*> items = ui->listWidget->selectedItems(); foreach(QListWidgetItem * item, items) { delete ui->listWidget->takeItem(ui->listWidget->row(item)); } Another way is to qDeleteAll : qDeleteAll(ui->listWidget->selectedItems());