AdaptTable for shadcn

Inline cell editing in shadcn

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

Text, number and select editors all share one class key, so every editor in the table is the same h-8 field over border-input — and a rejected commit reads as a form error in text-destructive, the tone shadcn already uses for one.

The code

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

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 Base UI — Unstyled primitives, blue accent
• Inline cell editing in Tailwind — 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.
• 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.
• Accessible shadcn data table — Arrow-key focus, a visible ring, forced-colors, and live announcements.
• AI table assistant in shadcn — Native assistant, feature-aware prompts and governed action receipts.

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