AdaptTable for shadcn-vue

Accessible shadcn-vue 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-vue.

The code

<script setup lang="ts">
import type { ColumnDef } from "@adapttable/vue";
import { DataTable } from "@adapttable/shadcn-vue";
import { cellNavigation } from "@adapttable/shadcn-vue/cell-navigation";
import { columnSelectionCheckbox } from "@adapttable/shadcn-vue/column-selection";

defineProps<{
  rows: readonly Person[];
  columns: readonly ColumnDef<Person>[];
}>();

const rowKey = (row: Person) => row.id;
const features = [cellNavigation(), columnSelectionCheckbox()];
</script>

<template>
  <DataTable
    table-label="People keyboard grid"
    :data="rows" :columns="columns" :row-key="rowKey"
    :features="features"
  />
</template>

Install

pnpm add @adapttable/shadcn-vue @adapttable/vue @adapttable/core reka-ui

The same feature in the other kits

• Accessible Vue Unstyled data table — Native elements — your own CSS
• Accessible Element Plus data table — Element blue, crisp form controls
• Accessible Vuetify data table — Material Design, Vuetify blue
• Accessible Naive UI data table — Clean, compact, green accent
• Accessible Reka UI data table — Accessible primitives, neutral theme
• Accessible Nuxt UI data table — Tailwind-native, Nuxt green
• Accessible Quasar data table — Material-flavoured, Quasar blue

More shadcn-vue features

• Filtering in shadcn-vue — Ranges, selects, an AND/OR tree and chips — all in the URL.
• Column management in shadcn-vue — Show, hide, reorder, pin and resize — from a menu you did not write.
• Column groups in shadcn-vue — Spanning headers that collapse to a stub, a kept child, or a custom cell.
• Row selection in shadcn-vue — A set of ids that survives paging, with bulk actions over it.
• Rows in shadcn-vue — Pin rows from a 3-dot menu, and merge a team that runs down the page.
• Row reordering in shadcn-vue — Drag or keyboard moves, announced — the host writes.
• Inline cell editing in shadcn-vue — Native editors in the cell; every write goes through your handler.
• Row grouping in shadcn-vue — Drag, select or keyboard grouping, with totals in the headers.
• Aggregation in shadcn-vue — Footer totals, pinned summaries, group aggregates — not data rows.
• Nested tables in shadcn-vue — A real table under a row — same engine, own columns, own keys.
• CSV export in shadcn-vue — One toolbar button, a CSV of the table as it stands.
• Row and column virtualization in shadcn-vue — 40,000 rows in a scroll box, only the visible ones rendered.
• Tree data in shadcn-vue — Nesting, chevrons, lazy children, and a tree on phones.
• Mobile cards in shadcn-vue — Every row becomes a card on phones. Automatically, with the same state.
• Pivot tables in shadcn-vue — Rows down the side, dimensions across the top, subtotals at every level.
• Saved views in shadcn-vue — Name an arrangement and restore it from the menu.
• Spreadsheet formulas in shadcn-vue — ROUND, POWER, SQRT, IF — computed columns, errors in the cell.
• Right-to-left shadcn-vue data table — Arabic strings, a flipped axis, and a popover that opens from the right edge.
• Live updates in shadcn-vue — Rows change while you read them. Sort and selection hold.
• AI table assistant in shadcn-vue — Local sort, questions and approved edits with real table outcomes.

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