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Very lightweight and fast editable web grid with strict MS-Excel adherence to user experience. Modern as of year 2020 (web components, es6 modules) with no dependencies.

If you need to edit mixed hierarchical and grid data, please visit sister project form-chen.

Demos, PlayGrounds and Documentation

See gridchen at github.io

Installation

Either

Releases

All stable releases are tagged.

Basic Usage

<!DOCTYPE html>
<grid-chen></grid-chen>
<script type="module">
    import "https://decatur.github.io/gridchen/gridchen/webcomponent.js"
    import {createView} from "https://decatur.github.io/gridchen/gridchen/matrixview.js"
    import {createTransactionManager} from "https://decatur.github.io/gridchen/gridchen/utils.js";

    // The JSON schema defines the data structure of the matrix.
    const schema = {
        title: 'Array of Row Arrays',
        type: 'array',
        items: {
            type: 'array',
            items: [
                {title: 'SomeDate', type: 'string', format:'full-date'},
                {title: 'SomeNumber', type: 'number'}
            ]
        }
    };

    const rows = [['2019-01-01', 1], ['2020-01-01', 2], ['2021-01-01', 3]];
    const view = createView(schema, rows);
    const tm = createTransactionManager();
    document.querySelector('grid-chen').resetFromView(view, tm);
</script>

Expected Behaviour

We try to mimic MS-Excel as close as possible.

Supported Keyboard Shortcuts

See also Keyboard shortcuts in Excel

Key Action
Ctrl+Z Undo last transaction
Ctrl+Y Redo, reverse last undo
Arrows Move active cell up/down/left/right (not in edit mode)
Tab Move active cell right (non-rolling)
Enter Move active cell down (non-rolling)
Shift+Enter Move active cell up (non-rolling)
Shift+Tab Move active cell left (non-rolling)
SHIFT+Arrows Select a range of cells
Ctrl+Space Select entire column
Shift+Space Select entire row
Shift+MouseClick Expand selection
Ctrl+MouseClick Multi-select cells
Ctrl+'-' Delete selected row
Ctrl+'+' Insert row before selection
Alt + Enter In edit mode, insert newline
Page Down Move one page down
Page Up Move one page up
Ctrl+A Select all grid cells (same as Ctrl+A in an Excel List Object)
Ctrl+A Ctrl+A Select the entire grid including header (same as Ctrl+A Ctrl+A in an Excel List Object)
ESC Cancel edit or input mode
Delete Remove selected cells contents
Ctrl+C Copy selected cells to clipboard
Ctrl+V Paste clipboard into selected cells
Ctrl+X Cut
F2 Enter edit mode; In input or edit mode, toggle between input and edit.
Alt+F1 Open a modal chart of the selection.
Backspace In input or edit mode, deletes one character to the left
Delete In input or edit mode, deletes one character to the right
End In input or edit mode, move to the end of the text
Home In input or edit mode, move to the beginning of the text

Light / Dark Mode

gridchen has a light and dark mode. The desired mode is sniffed through the background color intensity of the body element. There are currently no other explicit CSS hooks, such as CSS custom properties.

⚠ Some dark reader (for example Dark Reader) extensions may show inferior results when converting light to dark mode than gridchen's native dark mode.

Undo & Redo

tm

TODOs

  • Do not use JSON Patch replace for a remove operation!
  • TransactionManager: Do not add properties cell to patch array.
  • Handle clipboard not permitted errors
  • Improve encapsulation of JavaScript API
  • Show 1 empty row at end (Slider issue)
  • Avoid refreshing complete viewport on cell change
  • Handling of Infinity and NaN (#NV in de-de)

Contribute

Publish as Python Package

Bump version in setup.py and git tag.

python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
python -m twine upload dist/*

Publish as npm Package

Bump version in gridchen/package.json and git tag.

cd gridchen & npm publish

Alternatives

About JavaScript Modules

As gridchen has no dependencies, we do not need any packaging or use of bare import spec remapping like Skypack

See

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