AdaptTable for Chakra

Inline cell editing in Chakra

Mark a column editable, compose editing(onCellEdit), and double-click opens a Chakra 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 Chakra's Input and NativeSelect at size sm; Chakra v3 ships no NumberInput here, so a number cell is an Input typed number and the validation message is the table's own.

The code

import { DataTable, type ColumnDef } from "@adapttable/chakra";
import { cellNavigation } from "@adapttable/chakra/cell-navigation";
import { editHistory, editing } from "@adapttable/chakra/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/chakra @adapttable/core @chakra-ui/react @emotion/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 Ant Design — Compact, tinted header, crisp
• Inline cell editing in Radix — Radix Themes, iris accent
• Inline cell editing in Base UI — Unstyled primitives, blue accent
• Inline cell editing in shadcn — Monochrome, ring focus
• Inline cell editing in Tailwind — Unstyled — your own classes

More Chakra features

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

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