AdaptTable for shadcn

Accessible shadcn 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 shadcn.

The grid is semantic markup wearing the preset; the header checkbox is a native input with the preset's classes, and the focus ring is the same outline the rest of the table uses.

The code

import { DataTable } from "@adapttable/shadcn";
import { cellNavigation } from "@adapttable/shadcn/cell-navigation";
import { columnSelectionCheckbox } from "@adapttable/shadcn/column-selection";

export function People({ rows, columns }) {
  return (
    <DataTable
      data={rows}
      columns={columns}
      rowKey={(row) => row.id}
      features={[cellNavigation(), columnSelectionCheckbox()]}
    />
  );
}

Install

pnpm add @adapttable/shadcn @adapttable/core

The same feature in the other kits

• Accessible Mantine data table — Rounded, friendly, filled controls
• Accessible MUI data table — Material elevation, uppercase actions
• Accessible Chakra data table — Soft teal, generous radius
• Accessible Ant Design data table — Compact, tinted header, crisp
• Accessible Radix data table — Radix Themes, iris accent
• Accessible Base UI data table — Unstyled primitives, blue accent
• Accessible Tailwind data table — Unstyled — your own classes

More shadcn features

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

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