TableSelection

Adds rectangular selection to HTML tables to allow copy of specific columns and rows without copying contents of other cells in range.

• Supports horizontal, vertical and rectangular selections.
• Includes clipboard support with table formatting for Excel or other spreadsheet software!
• It even works on mobile!
• Tested and working in Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Mobile Chrome and Samsung Browser
• Lightweight (5,4 kB)

Table of contents

• Installation
  • Using precompiled js
  • Using a module loader
• Upgrading from 0.9.x
• Usage
• API
• Demo
• License (it's free!)

Installation

• Run npm i @pxlwidgets/table-selection or download the sources.

Using the precompiled js and css files

• Include dist/js/table-selection.js or dist/js/table-selection.min.js in your project or import using a module loader (more info below).
• Include dist/css/table-selection.css or dist/css/table-selection.min.css in your project (or use the provided LESS or SCSS file).

Using a module loader

The package includes files for integration in Typescript and ES6 projects:

import { TableSelection } from '@pxlwidgets/table-selection';

Upgrading from v0.9.x

v1.x no longer uses a stylesheet file, so you should remove any of these CSS/SCSS/LESS imports:

• CSS: dist/css/table-selection.css
• SCSS: @import '~/@pxlwidgets/table-selection'
• LESS: @include 'node_modules/@pxlwidgets/table-selection/dist/less/table-selection.less'

Usage

• Add .table-selection class to the table(s) you want to apply the selection functionality on.
• Initialize the script using new TableSelection().

Note You can use a different DOM selector by setting the selector configuration option when creating the Javascript instance.

Javascript API

The constructor takes one, optional argument.

constructor(config: TableSelectionConfig = {})

The config parameter (interface TableSelectionConfig) has the following properties:

| Property | Type | Required | Default | Description | |---------------------|----------|----------|----------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | selector | string | No | '.table-selection' | Sets the DOM selector to apply the functionality to. This should point to one or more table elements on your page. E.g. table or .table. | | selectionCssMode | string | No | '.style' | One of 'style' or 'cssClass'. Sets which method to use to highlight selected cells. 'style' uses style attributes with CSS variables. 'cssClass' adds the CSS class specified in the selectionCssClass config property. | | selectionCssClass | string | No | 'selected' | Sets the CSS class to apply to 'selected' table cells. E.g. active, selected or highlighted. This only applies if the selectionCssMode is set to 'cssClass' and requires you to add styles for the selector yourself. |

Example usage :

new TableSelection({
  selector: '#my-table',
  selectionCssMode: 'cssClass',
  selectionCssClass: 'my-highlighted-cell-class',
});

For example:

new TableSelection();

new TableSelection({ selector: 'table' });

Demo

View live example on Codepen

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2019 Wouter Smit Copyright (c) 2019 PXL.Widgets B.V.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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