Dropdown cell type

Table of contents

• Overview
• Usage

Overview

The dropdown cell type is based on an autocomplete cell type and can also be searchable.

Usage

This example shows the usage of the dropdown feature. Dropdown is based on Autocomplete cell type. All options used by autocomplete cell type apply to dropdown as well.

Internally, cell {type: 'dropdown'} is equivalent to cell {type: 'autocomplete', strict: true, filter: false}. Therefore you can think of dropdown as a searchable <select>.

const container = document.querySelector('#example1'); const hot = new Handsontable(container, { data: [ ['Tesla', 2017, 'black', 'black'], ['Nissan', 2018, 'blue', 'blue'], ['Chrysler', 2019, 'yellow', 'black'], ['Volvo', 2020, 'white', 'gray'] ], colHeaders: ['Car', 'Year', 'Chassis color', 'Bumper color'], columns: [ {}, { type: 'numeric' }, { type: 'dropdown', source: ['yellow', 'red', 'orange', 'green', 'blue', 'gray', 'black', 'white'] }, { type: 'dropdown', source: ['yellow', 'red', 'orange', 'green', 'blue', 'gray', 'black', 'white'] } ], licenseKey: 'non-commercial-and-evaluation' }); <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/handsontable@11.1/dist/handsontable.full.min.js"></script> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/handsontable@11.1/dist/handsontable.full.min.css" /> <div id="example1" class="hot "></div>

const container = document.querySelector('#example1');

const hot = new Handsontable(container, {
  data: [
    ['Tesla', 2017, 'black', 'black'],
    ['Nissan', 2018, 'blue', 'blue'],
    ['Chrysler', 2019, 'yellow', 'black'],
    ['Volvo', 2020, 'white', 'gray']
  ],
  colHeaders: ['Car', 'Year', 'Chassis color', 'Bumper color'],
  columns: [
    {},
    { type: 'numeric' },
    {
      type: 'dropdown',
      source: ['yellow', 'red', 'orange', 'green', 'blue', 'gray', 'black', 'white']
    },
    {
      type: 'dropdown',
      source: ['yellow', 'red', 'orange', 'green', 'blue', 'gray', 'black', 'white']
    }
  ],
  licenseKey: 'non-commercial-and-evaluation'
});