JavaScript Data Grid Text alignment

Align values within cells: horizontally (to the right, left, center, or by justifying them), and vertically (to the top, middle, or bottom of the cell).

In this article

• Horizontal and vertical alignment
• Basic example
• Related API reference

Horizontal and vertical alignment

To initialize Handsontable with predefined horizontal and vertical alignment globally, provide the alignment details in the className option, for example:

className: 'htCenter'

Cells can be also configured individually by setting up the cells option. See the code sample below for an example.

Available class names:

• Horizontal: htLeft, htCenter, htRight, htJustify,
• Vertical: htTop, htMiddle, htBottom.

Alignment changes can be tracked using the afterSetCellMeta hook.

Basic example

The following code sample configures the grid to use htCenter and configures individual cells to use different alignments.

import Handsontable from 'handsontable'; import 'handsontable/dist/handsontable.full.min.css'; // generate an array of arrays with dummy data const data = new Array(100) // number of rows .fill() .map((_, row) => new Array(18) // number of columns .fill() .map((_, column) => `${row}, ${column}`) ); const container = document.querySelector('#example1'); const hot = new Handsontable(container, { data, colWidths: 100, height: 320, rowHeaders: true, colHeaders: true, contextMenu: true, licenseKey: 'non-commercial-and-evaluation', mergeCells: [ { row: 1, col: 1, rowspan: 3, colspan: 3 }, { row: 3, col: 4, rowspan: 2, colspan: 2 } ], className: 'htCenter', cell: [ { row: 0, col: 0, className: 'htRight' }, { row: 1, col: 1, className: 'htLeft htMiddle' }, { row: 3, col: 4, className: 'htLeft htBottom' } ], afterSetCellMeta(row, col, key, val) { console.log('cell meta changed', row, col, key, val); } }); <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/handsontable@12.2/dist/handsontable.full.min.js"></script> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/handsontable@12.2/dist/handsontable.full.min.css" /> <script src="https://handsontable.com/docs/12.2/scripts/fixer.js"></script> <div id="example1" class="hot "></div>

import Handsontable from 'handsontable';
import 'handsontable/dist/handsontable.full.min.css';

// generate an array of arrays with dummy data
const data = new Array(100) // number of rows
  .fill()
  .map((_, row) => new Array(18) // number of columns
    .fill()
    .map((_, column) => `${row}, ${column}`)
  );

const container = document.querySelector('#example1');
const hot = new Handsontable(container, {
  data,
  colWidths: 100,
  height: 320,
  rowHeaders: true,
  colHeaders: true,
  contextMenu: true,
  licenseKey: 'non-commercial-and-evaluation',
  mergeCells: [
    { row: 1, col: 1, rowspan: 3, colspan: 3 },
    { row: 3, col: 4, rowspan: 2, colspan: 2 }
  ],
  className: 'htCenter',
  cell: [
    { row: 0, col: 0, className: 'htRight' },
    { row: 1, col: 1, className: 'htLeft htMiddle' },
    { row: 3, col: 4, className: 'htLeft htBottom' }
  ],
  afterSetCellMeta(row, col, key, val) {
    console.log('cell meta changed', row, col, key, val);
  }
});

Related API reference

• Configuration options:
  • className
• Hooks:
  • afterSetCellMeta
  • beforeCellAlignment