AdaptTable for MUI

Inline cell editing in MUI

Mark a column editable, compose editing(onCellEdit), and double-click opens a MUI 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.

Every editor is a small TextField — text, number and the select variant with MenuItem options — so a rejected value reports through the field's own error state and helperText rather than through chrome bolted beside it.

The code

import { DataTable, type ColumnDef } from "@adapttable/mui";
import { cellNavigation } from "@adapttable/mui/cell-navigation";
import { editHistory, editing } from "@adapttable/mui/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/mui @adapttable/core @mui/material

The same feature in the other kits

• Inline cell editing in Mantine — Rounded, friendly, filled controls
• 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 Base UI — Unstyled primitives, blue accent
• Inline cell editing in shadcn — Monochrome, ring focus
• Inline cell editing in Tailwind — Unstyled — your own classes

More MUI features

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

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