Vue 2 Data Grid Referencing the Handsontable instance in Vue 2

Reference the Handsontable instance from a Vue 2 component to programmatically perform actions such as reloading the data in your data grid.

Example

Example

The following example implements the @handsontable/vue, showing how to reference the Handsontable instance from the wrapper component.

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

// register Handsontable's modules
registerAllModules();

const ExampleComponent = {
  data: function() {
    return {
      hotSettings: {
        data: [
          ['A1', 'B1', 'C1', 'D1'],
          ['A2', 'B2', 'C2', 'D2'],
          ['A3', 'B3', 'C3', 'D3'],
          ['A4', 'B4', 'C4', 'D4'],
        ],
        colHeaders: true,
        height: 'auto',
        licenseKey: 'non-commercial-and-evaluation'
      }
    }
  },
  methods: {
    swapHotData: function() {
      // The Handsontable instance is stored under the `hotInstance` property of the wrapper component.
      this.$refs.hotTableComponent.hotInstance.loadData([['new', 'data']]);
    }
  },
  components: {
    HotTable
  }
}

export default ExampleComponent;

new Vue({
  ...ExampleComponent,
  el: '#example1',
});

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/handsontable@13.0/dist/handsontable.full.min.js"></script>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/handsontable@13.0/dist/handsontable.full.min.css" /> 
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vue@2/dist/vue.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@handsontable/vue@13.0/dist/vue-handsontable.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://handsontable.com/docs/13.0/scripts/fixer.js"></script>

<div id="example1">
  <hot-table ref="hotTableComponent" :settings="hotSettings"></hot-table><br/>
  <button v-on:click="swapHotData" class="controls">Load new data</button>
</div>

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