The selection feature enables rich data select capabilities in the Material UI based Grid. Variety of events and single select actions are available thanks to the powerful API and easy to use methods. The Grid now supports three modes for cell selection, and you can easily switch between them by changing cellSelection
property. You can disable cell selection, you can select only one cell within the grid or to select multiple cells in the grid, which is provided as default option. But let's dive deeper in each of these options.
The sample below demonstrates the three types of Grid's cell selection behavior. Use the buttons below to enable each of the available selection modes. A brief description will be provided on each button interaction through a snackbar message box.
Selection types Grid Multiple-cell SelectionHow to select cells:
Mouse drag
- Rectangular data selection of cells would be performed.Ctrl key
press + Mouse drag
- Multiple range selections would be performed. Any other existing cell selection will be persisted.Shift key
the cell selection range will be updated based on the first selected cell position (starting point).Arrow keys
while holding Shift key
. Multi-cell selection range will be created based on the focused cell.Ctrl + Arrow keys
and Ctrl + Home/End
while holding Shift key
. Multi-cell selection range will be created based on the focused cell.Left Mouse key
while holding Ctrl key
will add single cell ranges into the selected cells collection.When you set the [cellSelection]="'single'"
, this allows you to have only one selected cell in the grid at a time. Also the mode mouse drag
will not work and instead of selecting a cell, this will make default text selection.
When single cell is selected selected
event is emitted, no matter if the selection mode
is single
or multiple
. In multi-cell selection mode when you select a range of cells rangeSelected
event is emitted.
If you want to disable cell selection you can just set [cellSelection]="'none'"
property. In this mode when you click over the cell or try to navigate with keyboard, the cell is not selected, only the activation style
is applied and it is going to be lost when you scroll or click over other element on the page. The only way for you to define selection is by using the API methods that are described below.
Continuous scroll is possible only within Grid's body.
Api usageBelow are the methods that you can use in order to select ranges, clear selection or get selected cells data.
Select rangeselectRange(range)
- Select a range of cells with the API. rowStart
and rowEnd
should use row indexes and columnStart
and columnEnd
could use column index or column data field value.
const range = { rowStart: 2, rowEnd: 2, columnStart: 1, columnEnd: 1 };
this.grid1.selectRange(range);
...
const range = { rowStart: 0, rowEnd: 2, columnStart: 'Name', columnEnd: 'ParentID' };
this.grid1.selectRange(range);
Note
Select range is additive operation. It will not clear your previous selection.
Clear cell selectionclearCellSelection()
will clear the current cell selection.
getSelectedData()
will return array of the selected data in format depending on the selection. Examples below:
expectedData = [
{ CompanyName: 'Infragistics' },
{ Name: 'Michael Langdon' },
{ ParentID: 147 }
];
expectedData = [
{ Address: 'Obere Str. 57'},
{ Address: 'Avda. de la Constitución 2222'},
{ Address: 'Mataderos 2312'}
];
expectedData = [
{ Address: 'Avda. de la Constitución 2222', City: 'México D.F.', ContactTitle: 'Owner' }
];
expectedData = [
{ ContactTitle: 'Sales Agent', Address: 'Cerrito 333', City: 'Buenos Aires'},
{ ContactTitle: 'Marketing Manager', Address: 'Sierras de Granada 9993', City: 'México D.F.'}
];
expectedData = [
{ ContactName: 'MartÃn Sommer', ContactTitle: 'Owner'},
{ ContactName: 'Laurence Lebihan', ContactTitle: 'Owner'},
{ Address: '23 Tsawassen Blvd.', City: 'Tsawassen'},
{ Address: 'Fauntleroy Circus', City: 'London'}
];
expectedData = [
{ ContactName: 'Diego Roel', ContactTitle: 'Accounting Manager', Address: 'C/ Moralzarzal, 86'},
{ ContactName: 'Martine Rancé', ContactTitle: 'Assistant Sales Agent', Address: '184, chaussée de Tournai', City: 'Lille'},
{ ContactName: 'Maria Larsson', ContactTitle: 'Owner', Address: 'Ã
kergatan 24', City: 'Bräcke'},
{ ContactTitle: 'Marketing Manager', Address: 'Berliner Platz 43', City: 'München'}
];
Note
selectedCells()
will return cells from all visible rows (rows in the grid's view port) and from all columns, including columns that are out of view. getSelectedData()
will also return the selected cell data. getSelectedRanges(): GridSelectionRange[]
will return the current selected ranges in the grid from both keyboard and pointer interactions. The type is GridSelectionRange[].
The multi-cell selection is index based (DOM elements selection).
Sorting
- When sorting is performed selection will not be cleared. It will leave currently selected cells the same while sorting ascending or descending.Paging
- On paging selected cells will be cleared. Selection wont be persisted across pages.Filtering
- When filtering is performed selection will not be cleared. If filtering is cleared it will return - the initially selected cells.Resizing
- On column resizing selected cells will not be cleared.Hiding
- It will not clear the selected cells. If column is hidden, the cells from the next visible column will be selected.Pinning
- Selected cell will not be cleared. Same as hidingGroup by
- On column grouping selected cells will not be cleared.The theme engine exposes properties that allow us to style the range of selected cells.
Import themeTo get started with styling the selection, we need to import the index
file, where all the theme functions and component mixins live:
@use "igniteui-angular/theming" as *;
// IMPORTANT: Prior to Ignite UI for Angular version 13 use:
// @import '~igniteui-angular/lib/core/styles/themes/index';
Define colors
Once done, we can make use of the contrast-color
and color
functions. With them, we define the colors we would like to use for our selection range:
$text-color: contrast-color($color: 'primary', $variant: 900);
$background-color: color($color: "primary", $variant: 900);
$border-yellow: #f2c43c;
Note
If we don't want to use the contrast-color
and color
functions, we can always hardcode the color values.
Next we create a new theme that extends the grid-theme
passing our text-color
, background-color
and border-yellow
variables as $cell-selected-text-color
, $cell-selected-background
and $cell-active-border-color
, respectively:
$custom-grid-theme: grid-theme(
$cell-selected-text-color: $text-color,
$cell-active-border-color: $border-yellow,
$cell-selected-background: $background-color
);
Apply theme
Afterwards, all we need to do is include the mixin in our component's style (could also be in the app styles), so that our igx-grid uses the newly created theme instead of the default one:
@include css-vars($custom-grid-theme);
With the custom theme applied, the selected grid cells are highlighted with our selected colors:
Demo NoteThe sample will not be affected by the selected global theme from Change Theme
.
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