Handsontable is a minimalistic approach to Excel-like table editor in HTML & jQuery. Requires jQuery 1.7+. Runs in IE7, IE8, IE9, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera.

See the demos at http://handsontable.com/ or fork the example on JSFiddle.

First, include all the dependencies:

<script src="lib/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="jquery.handsontable.js"></script>
<script src="lib/bootstrap-typeahead.js"></script><!-- if you need the autocomplete feature -->
<script src="lib/jquery.autoresize.js"></script><!-- if you need the autoexpanding textarea -->
<script src="lib/jQuery-contextMenu/jquery.contextMenu.js"></script><!-- if you need the context menu -->
<script src="lib/jQuery-contextMenu/jquery.ui.position.js"></script><!-- if you need the context menu -->
<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="lib/jQuery-contextMenu/jquery.contextMenu.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="jquery.handsontable.css">

Then, run handsontable() constructor on an empty div. After that, load some data if you wish:

<div id="dataTable" class="dataTable"></div>
<script>
  $("#dataTable").handsontable({
    rows: 6,
    cols: 8
  });
  var data = [
    ["", "Kia", "Nissan", "Toyota", "Honda"],
    ["2008", 10, 11, 12, 13],
    ["2009", 20, 11, 14, 13],
    ["2010", 30, 15, 12, 13]
  ];
  $("#dataTable").handsontable("loadData", data);
</script>

To see the list of recent changes, see the Changelog wiki page.

The table below presents configuration options that are interpreted by handsontable() constructor:

The legend option is an array of mixins that define multiple legends for the grid.

With your imagination, legend can be used to make any of the grid cells read-only, use different text color, or show a tooltip (title) when hovered with mouse cursor.

Example:

legend: [
  {
    match: function (row, col, data) {
      return (row === 0); //if it is first row
    },
    style: {
      color: '#666', //make the text gray and bold
      fontWeight: 'bold'
    },
    title: 'Heading', //make some tooltip
    readOnly: true, //make it read-only
    icon: {
      src: "/calendar.png", // url to icon (16 x 16)
      click: initCalendar // function to call when the icon is clicked
    }
  }

The autocomplete option is an array of mixins that define multiple autocomplete providers for the grid.

To keep Handsontable lightweight, this feature has a dependency on another jQuery plugin: bootstrap-typeahead. It is included in the repo.

Example:

autoComplete: [
  {
    match: function (row, col, data) {
      if (data()[0][col].indexOf("color") > -1) { //if column name contains word "color"
        return true;
      }
      return false;
    },
    highlighter: function (item) {
      //only define this function if you want a different behavior
      //than the original (defaultAutoCompleteHighlighter in core.js)
      var query = this.query.replace(/[\-\[\]{}()*+?.,\\\^$|#\s]/g, '\\$&');
      var label = item.replace(new RegExp('(' + query + ')', 'ig'), function ($1, match) {
        return '<strong>' + match + '</strong>';
      });
      return '<span style="margin-right: 10px; background-color: ' + item + '">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>' + label;
    },
    source: function (row, col) {
      return ["yellow", "red", "orange", "green", "blue", "gray", "black", "white"]
    },
    strict: false //allows other values that defined in array above
  },
  {
    match: function (row, col, data) {
      return (col === 0); //if it is first column
    },
    source: function (row, col) {
      return ["BMW", "Chrysler", "Nissan", "Suzuki", "Toyota", "Volvo"]
    },
    strict: true //only accept predefined values (from array above)
  }
],

If you are interested in more complicated data grid solutions, consider:

• DataTables
• SlickGrid

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Copyright (c) 2012 Marcin Warpechowski <[email protected]>

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