AdaptTable for Angular Material

Accessible Angular Material data table

Tab into the grid and the arrows move a visible focus, one cell at a time. Home and End jump to the row's edges.

Every move, sort, filter and edit is announced through a live region — the part of a table a sighted reader cannot check, so this page repeats those announcements as text as they happen.

columnSelectionCheckbox puts a named checkbox on each header so a column can be selected without a modifier key a touchscreen does not have. Focus, selection, status and disabled controls stay legible in high contrast and forced-colors — nothing is color-only. The grid and the checkboxes are Angular Material.

The code

import { Component, input } from "@angular/core";
import type { ColumnDef } from "@adapttable/angular";
import { AdaptDataTable } from "@adapttable/angular-material";
import { cellNavigation } from "@adapttable/angular-material/cell-navigation";
import { columnSelectionCheckbox } from "@adapttable/angular-material/column-selection";

@Component({
  selector: "app-keyboard-people",
  imports: [AdaptDataTable],
  template: `
    <adapt-data-table
      tableLabel="People keyboard grid"
      [data]="rows()" [columns]="columns()" [rowKey]="rowKey"
      [features]="features"
    />
  `,
})
export class KeyboardPeople {
  readonly rows = input.required<readonly Person[]>();
  readonly columns = input.required<readonly ColumnDef<Person>[]>();
  readonly rowKey = (row: Person) => row.id;
  readonly features = [cellNavigation(), columnSelectionCheckbox()];
}

Install

# Follow the kit setup guide for compatible peers
pnpm add @adapttable/angular-material @adapttable/angular @angular/material@22.2.1 @angular/cdk@22.2.1 @angular/forms@^22 rxjs@^7.8.0

The same feature in the other kits

• Accessible Unstyled data table — Native elements — your own CSS
• Accessible NG-ZORRO data table — Ant Design components for Angular
• Accessible ng-bootstrap data table — Bootstrap styling, Angular overlays
• Accessible Angular Aria data table — Accessible behavior, precise styling
• Accessible ngx-bootstrap data table — Bootstrap controls and overlays
• Accessible Angular CDK data table — CDK behavior, a neutral theme
• Accessible Spartan data table — Sharp borders, subtle elevation
• Accessible Taiga UI data table — Soft surfaces, expressive controls

More Angular Material features

• Filtering in Angular Material — Ranges, selects, an AND/OR tree and chips — all in the URL.
• Column management in Angular Material — Show, hide, reorder, pin and resize — from a menu you did not write.
• Column groups in Angular Material — Spanning headers that collapse to a stub, a kept child, or a custom cell.
• Row selection in Angular Material — A set of ids that survives paging, with bulk actions over it.
• Rows in Angular Material — Pin rows from a 3-dot menu, and merge a team that runs down the page.
• Row reordering in Angular Material — Drag or keyboard moves, announced — the host writes.
• Inline cell editing in Angular Material — Native editors in the cell; every write goes through your handler.
• Row grouping in Angular Material — Drag, select or keyboard grouping, with totals in the headers.
• Aggregation in Angular Material — Footer totals, pinned summaries, group aggregates — not data rows.
• Nested tables in Angular Material — A real table under a row — same engine, own columns, own keys.
• CSV export in Angular Material — One toolbar button, a CSV of the table as it stands.
• Row and column virtualization in Angular Material — 40,000 rows in a scroll box, only the visible ones rendered.
• Tree data in Angular Material — Nesting, chevrons, lazy children, and a tree on phones.
• Mobile cards in Angular Material — Every row becomes a card on phones. Automatically, with the same state.
• Pivot tables in Angular Material — Rows down the side, dimensions across the top, subtotals at every level.
• Saved views in Angular Material — Name an arrangement and restore it from the menu.
• Spreadsheet formulas in Angular Material — ROUND, POWER, SQRT, IF — computed columns, errors in the cell.
• Right-to-left Angular Material data table — Arabic strings, a flipped axis, and a popover that opens from the right edge.
• Live updates in Angular Material — Rows change while you read them. Sort and selection hold.
• AI table assistant in Angular Material — Local sort, questions and approved edits with real table outcomes.

Reference: accessibility, cell-navigation. More of this kit: AdaptTable for Angular Material, or the live demo.