AdaptTable for Tailwind

Inline cell editing in Tailwind

Mark a column editable, compose editing(onCellEdit), and double-click opens a Tailwind 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 editor is a native input or select carrying the map's field classes with an indigo focus ring; the validation and rollback parts carry no classes in this map, so a rejected commit reads as browser-default text.

The code

import { DataTable, type ColumnDef } from "@adapttable/unstyled";
import { cellNavigation } from "@adapttable/unstyled/cell-navigation";
import { editHistory, editing } from "@adapttable/unstyled/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/unstyled @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 shadcn — Monochrome, ring focus

More Tailwind features

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

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