React Data Grid Disabled cells

Make specified cells read-only to protect them from unwanted changes but still allow navigation and copying of data.

In this article

• Overview
• Read-only columns
• Read-only specific cells
• Non-editable columns
• Non-editable specific cells
• Related API reference

Overview

Disabling a cell makes the cell read-only or non-editable. Both have similar outcomes, with the following differences:

Read-only cell readOnly: true	Non-editable cell editor: false
Has an additional CSS class (htDimmed)	Has no additional CSS class
Copy works, paste doesn't work	Copy-paste works
Drag-to-fill doesn't work	Drag-to-fill works
Can't be changed by populateFromArray()	Can be changed by populateFromArray()

Read-only columns

In many use cases, you will need to configure a certain column to be read-only. This column will be available for keyboard navigation and copying data (Ctrl/Cmd + C). Editing and pasting data will be disabled.

To make a column read-only, declare it in the columns configuration option. You can also define a special renderer function that will dim the read-only values, providing a visual cue for the user that the cells are read-only.

import { HotTable } from '@handsontable/react'; import { registerAllModules } from 'handsontable/registry'; import 'handsontable/dist/handsontable.full.min.css'; // register Handsontable's modules registerAllModules(); export const ExampleComponent = () => { return ( <HotTable data={[ { car: 'Tesla', year: 2017, chassis: 'black', bumper: 'black' }, { car: 'Nissan', year: 2018, chassis: 'blue', bumper: 'blue' }, { car: 'Chrysler', year: 2019, chassis: 'yellow', bumper: 'black' }, { car: 'Volvo', year: 2020, chassis: 'white', bumper: 'gray' } ]} height="auto" colHeaders={['Car', 'Year', 'Chassis color', 'Bumper color']} licenseKey="non-commercial-and-evaluation" columns={[ { data: 'car', readOnly: true }, { data: 'year' }, { data: 'chassis' }, { data: 'bumper' } ]} /> ); }; ReactDOM.render(<ExampleComponent />, document.getElementById('example1')); <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/handsontable@12.4/dist/handsontable.full.min.js"></script> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/handsontable@12.4/dist/handsontable.full.min.css" /> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/react@17/umd/react.production.min.js"></script> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/react-dom@17/umd/react-dom.production.min.js"></script> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@handsontable/react@12.4/dist/react-handsontable.min.js"></script> <script src="https://handsontable.com/docs/12.4/scripts/fixer.js"></script> <div id="example1" class="hot "></div>

import { HotTable } from '@handsontable/react';
import { registerAllModules } from 'handsontable/registry';
import 'handsontable/dist/handsontable.full.min.css';

// register Handsontable's modules
registerAllModules();

export const ExampleComponent = () => {
  return (
    <HotTable
      data={[
        { car: 'Tesla', year: 2017, chassis: 'black', bumper: 'black' },
        { car: 'Nissan', year: 2018, chassis: 'blue', bumper: 'blue' },
        { car: 'Chrysler', year: 2019, chassis: 'yellow', bumper: 'black' },
        { car: 'Volvo', year: 2020, chassis: 'white', bumper: 'gray' }
      ]}
      height="auto"
      colHeaders={['Car', 'Year', 'Chassis color', 'Bumper color']}
      licenseKey="non-commercial-and-evaluation"
      columns={[
        {
          data: 'car',
          readOnly: true
        },
        {
          data: 'year'
        },
        {
          data: 'chassis'
        },
        {
          data: 'bumper'
        }
      ]}
    />
  );
};

Read-only specific cells

This example makes cells that contain the word "Nissan" read-only. It forces all cells to be processed by the cells function which will decide whether a cell's metadata should have the readOnly property set.

import { useRef, useEffect } from 'react'; import { HotTable } from '@handsontable/react'; import { registerAllModules } from 'handsontable/registry'; import 'handsontable/dist/handsontable.full.min.css'; // register Handsontable's modules registerAllModules(); export const ExampleComponent = () => { const hotRef = useRef(null); useEffect(() => { const hot = hotRef.current.hotInstance; hot.updateSettings({ cells(row, col) { const cellProperties = {}; if (hot.getData()[row][col] === 'Nissan') { cellProperties.readOnly = true; } return cellProperties; } }); }); return ( <HotTable ref={hotRef} data={[ { car: 'Tesla', year: 2017, chassis: 'black', bumper: 'black' }, { car: 'Nissan', year: 2018, chassis: 'blue', bumper: 'blue' }, { car: 'Chrysler', year: 2019, chassis: 'yellow', bumper: 'black' }, { car: 'Volvo', year: 2020, chassis: 'white', bumper: 'gray' } ]} colHeaders={['Car', 'Year', 'Chassis color', 'Bumper color']} height="auto" licenseKey="non-commercial-and-evaluation" /> ); }; ReactDOM.render(<ExampleComponent />, document.getElementById('example2')); <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/handsontable@12.4/dist/handsontable.full.min.js"></script> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/handsontable@12.4/dist/handsontable.full.min.css" /> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/react@17/umd/react.production.min.js"></script> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/react-dom@17/umd/react-dom.production.min.js"></script> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@handsontable/react@12.4/dist/react-handsontable.min.js"></script> <script src="https://handsontable.com/docs/12.4/scripts/fixer.js"></script> <div id="example2" class="hot "></div>

import { useRef, useEffect } from 'react';
import { HotTable } from '@handsontable/react';
import { registerAllModules } from 'handsontable/registry';
import 'handsontable/dist/handsontable.full.min.css';

// register Handsontable's modules
registerAllModules();

export const ExampleComponent = () => {
  const hotRef = useRef(null);

  useEffect(() => {
    const hot = hotRef.current.hotInstance;

    hot.updateSettings({
      cells(row, col) {
        const cellProperties = {};

        if (hot.getData()[row][col] === 'Nissan') {
          cellProperties.readOnly = true;
        }

        return cellProperties;
      }
    });
  });

  return (
    <HotTable
      ref={hotRef}
      data={[
        { car: 'Tesla', year: 2017, chassis: 'black', bumper: 'black' },
        { car: 'Nissan', year: 2018, chassis: 'blue', bumper: 'blue' },
        { car: 'Chrysler', year: 2019, chassis: 'yellow', bumper: 'black' },
        { car: 'Volvo', year: 2020, chassis: 'white', bumper: 'gray' }
      ]}
      colHeaders={['Car', 'Year', 'Chassis color', 'Bumper color']}
      height="auto"
      licenseKey="non-commercial-and-evaluation"
    />
  );
};

Non-editable cells behave like any other cells apart from preventing you from manually changing their values.

Non-editable columns

In many cases, you will need to configure a certain column to be non-editable. Doing this does not change its basic behaviour, apart from editing. This means that you can still use the keyboard navigation Ctrl/Cmd + C, and Ctrl/Cmd + V functionalities, and drag-to-fill, etc.

To make a column non-editable, declare it in the columns configuration option. You can also define a special renderer function that will dim the editor value. This will provide the user with a visual cue that the cell is non-editable.

import { HotTable } from '@handsontable/react'; import { registerAllModules } from 'handsontable/registry'; import 'handsontable/dist/handsontable.full.min.css'; // register Handsontable's modules registerAllModules(); export const ExampleComponent = () => { return ( <HotTable data={[ { car: 'Tesla', year: 2017, chassis: 'black', bumper: 'black' }, { car: 'Nissan', year: 2018, chassis: 'blue', bumper: 'blue' }, { car: 'Chrysler', year: 2019, chassis: 'yellow', bumper: 'black' }, { car: 'Volvo', year: 2020, chassis: 'white', bumper: 'gray' } ]} height="auto" colHeaders={['Car', 'Year', 'Chassis color', 'Bumper color']} licenseKey="non-commercial-and-evaluation" columns={[ { data: 'car', editor: false }, { data: 'year', editor: 'numeric' }, { data: 'chassis', editor: 'text' }, { data: 'bumper', editor: 'text' } ]} /> ); }; ReactDOM.render(<ExampleComponent />, document.getElementById('example3')); <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/handsontable@12.4/dist/handsontable.full.min.js"></script> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/handsontable@12.4/dist/handsontable.full.min.css" /> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/react@17/umd/react.production.min.js"></script> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/react-dom@17/umd/react-dom.production.min.js"></script> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@handsontable/react@12.4/dist/react-handsontable.min.js"></script> <script src="https://handsontable.com/docs/12.4/scripts/fixer.js"></script> <div id="example3" class="hot "></div>

import { HotTable } from '@handsontable/react';
import { registerAllModules } from 'handsontable/registry';
import 'handsontable/dist/handsontable.full.min.css';

// register Handsontable's modules
registerAllModules();

export const ExampleComponent = () => {
  return (
    <HotTable
      data={[
        { car: 'Tesla', year: 2017, chassis: 'black', bumper: 'black' },
        { car: 'Nissan', year: 2018, chassis: 'blue', bumper: 'blue' },
        { car: 'Chrysler', year: 2019, chassis: 'yellow', bumper: 'black' },
        { car: 'Volvo', year: 2020, chassis: 'white', bumper: 'gray' }
      ]}
      height="auto"
      colHeaders={['Car', 'Year', 'Chassis color', 'Bumper color']}
      licenseKey="non-commercial-and-evaluation"
      columns={[
        {
          data: 'car',
          editor: false
        },
        {
          data: 'year',
          editor: 'numeric'
        },
        {
          data: 'chassis',
          editor: 'text'
        },
        {
          data: 'bumper',
          editor: 'text'
        }
      ]}
    />
  );
};

Non-editable specific cells

The following example shows the table with non-editable cells containing the word "Nissan". This cell property is optional and can be easily set in the Handsontable configuration.

import { useRef, useEffect } from 'react'; import { HotTable } from '@handsontable/react'; import { registerAllModules } from 'handsontable/registry'; import 'handsontable/dist/handsontable.full.min.css'; // register Handsontable's modules registerAllModules(); export const ExampleComponent = () => { const hotRef = useRef(null); useEffect(() => { const hot = hotRef.current.hotInstance; hot.updateSettings({ cells(row, col, prop) { const cellProperties = {}; if (hot.getDataAtRowProp(row, prop) === 'Nissan') { cellProperties.editor = false; } else { cellProperties.editor = 'text'; } return cellProperties; } }); }); return ( <HotTable ref={hotRef} data={[ { car: 'Tesla', year: 2017, chassis: 'black', bumper: 'black' }, { car: 'Nissan', year: 2018, chassis: 'blue', bumper: 'blue' }, { car: 'Chrysler', year: 2019, chassis: 'yellow', bumper: 'black' }, { car: 'Volvo', year: 2020, chassis: 'white', bumper: 'gray' } ]} colHeaders={['Car', 'Year', 'Chassis color', 'Bumper color']} height="auto" licenseKey="non-commercial-and-evaluation" /> ); }; ReactDOM.render(<ExampleComponent />, document.getElementById('example4')); <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/handsontable@12.4/dist/handsontable.full.min.js"></script> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/handsontable@12.4/dist/handsontable.full.min.css" /> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/react@17/umd/react.production.min.js"></script> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/react-dom@17/umd/react-dom.production.min.js"></script> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@handsontable/react@12.4/dist/react-handsontable.min.js"></script> <script src="https://handsontable.com/docs/12.4/scripts/fixer.js"></script> <div id="example4" class="hot "></div>

import { useRef, useEffect } from 'react';
import { HotTable } from '@handsontable/react';
import { registerAllModules } from 'handsontable/registry';
import 'handsontable/dist/handsontable.full.min.css';

// register Handsontable's modules
registerAllModules();

export const ExampleComponent = () => {
  const hotRef = useRef(null);

  useEffect(() => {
    const hot = hotRef.current.hotInstance;

    hot.updateSettings({
      cells(row, col, prop) {
        const cellProperties = {};

        if (hot.getDataAtRowProp(row, prop) === 'Nissan') {
          cellProperties.editor = false;

        } else {
          cellProperties.editor = 'text';
        }

        return cellProperties;
      }
    });
  });

  return (
    <HotTable
      ref={hotRef}
      data={[
        { car: 'Tesla', year: 2017, chassis: 'black', bumper: 'black' },
        { car: 'Nissan', year: 2018, chassis: 'blue', bumper: 'blue' },
        { car: 'Chrysler', year: 2019, chassis: 'yellow', bumper: 'black' },
        { car: 'Volvo', year: 2020, chassis: 'white', bumper: 'gray' }
      ]}
      colHeaders={['Car', 'Year', 'Chassis color', 'Bumper color']}
      height="auto"
      licenseKey="non-commercial-and-evaluation"
    />
  );
};

Related API reference

• Configuration options:
  • readOnly
  • readOnlyCellClassName