AdaptTable for Base UI

Inline cell editing in Base UI

Mark a column editable, compose editing(onCellEdit), and double-click opens a Base UI editor in the cell. Enter commits, Escape cancels, Tab moves to the next editable cell.

The table never mutates your rows. It hands your handler the row, the column and the new value, and shows whatever you hand back — which is what makes optimistic updates, validation and rollback yours to decide.

With cellNavigation on, the same handler receives whole blocks: paste a spreadsheet range with Ctrl+V, drag the fill handle, and undo the entire paste with one Ctrl+Z.

The editors are Base UI's Input, Select and Checkbox; because Base UI does not forward a ref to the inner input, the cell finds the focusable node itself when the editor mounts.

The code

import { DataTable, type ColumnDef } from "@adapttable/base-ui";
import { cellNavigation } from "@adapttable/base-ui/cell-navigation";
import { editHistory, editing } from "@adapttable/base-ui/editing";

const columns: ColumnDef<Person>[] = [
  { key: "name", editable: true },
  {
    key: "status",
    editable: true,
    editor: { type: "select", options: ["active", "on-leave"] },
  },
  { key: "budget", editable: true, editor: "number" },
];

export function People({ rows, onSave }) {
  return (
    <DataTable
      data={rows}
      columns={columns}
      rowKey={(row) => row.id}
      features={[
        cellNavigation(),
        editHistory(),
        editing((row: Person, key, value) =>
          onSave({ ...row, [key]: value })
        ),
      ]}
    />
  );
}

Install

pnpm add @adapttable/base-ui @adapttable/core @base-ui/react

The same feature in the other kits

• Inline cell editing in Mantine — Rounded, friendly, filled controls
• Inline cell editing in MUI — Material elevation, uppercase actions
• Inline cell editing in Chakra — Soft teal, generous radius
• Inline cell editing in Ant Design — Compact, tinted header, crisp
• Inline cell editing in Radix — Radix Themes, iris accent
• Inline cell editing in shadcn — Monochrome, ring focus
• Inline cell editing in Tailwind — Unstyled — your own classes

More Base UI features

• Filtering in Base UI — Operators, an AND/OR tree, chips, and find in the same URL.
• Column management in Base UI — Show, hide, reorder, pin and resize — from a menu you did not write.
• Column groups in Base UI — Spanning headers that collapse to a stub, a kept child, or a custom cell.
• Row selection in Base UI — A set of ids that survives paging, with bulk actions over it.
• Rows in Base UI — Pin rows, merge cells, and a 3-dot menu for add and delete.
• Row reordering in Base UI — Flat, grouped and tree moves — keyboard, confirm, host writes.
• Row grouping in Base UI — Drag, keyboard and mobile grouping controls with live aggregation overrides.
• Aggregation in Base UI — Footer totals, pinned summaries, group aggregates — not data rows.
• Nested tables in Base UI — A real table under a row — same engine, own columns, own keys.
• Export and print in Base UI — Browser files or cancellable server jobs — CSV, XLSX and PDF.
• Row and column virtualization in Base UI — 100k rows, 40 columns, virtualized rows and columns, sticky chrome.
• Tree data in Base UI — Nesting, chevrons, URL expansion, and host-owned tree moves.
• Mobile cards in Base UI — Every row becomes a card on phones. Automatically, with the same state.
• Pivot tables in Base UI — Rows down the side, dimensions across the top, subtotals at every level.
• Saved views in Base UI — Name an arrangement, share it as a link, manage the list in place.
• Spreadsheet formulas in Base UI — ROUND, POWER, SQRT, IF — computed columns, errors in the cell.
• Right-to-left Base UI data table — Arabic strings, a flipped axis, and a popover that opens from the right edge.
• Live updates in Base UI — Rows change while you read them. Sort and selection hold.
• Accessible Base UI data table — Arrow-key focus, a visible ring, forced-colors, and live announcements.
• AI table assistant in Base UI — Native assistant, feature-aware prompts and governed action receipts.

Reference: cell-editing, cell-navigation. More of this kit: AdaptTable for Base UI, or the live demo.