Dropdown cell type

Collect user input with a searchable list of choices, by using the dropdown cell type.

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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>.

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={[
        ['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"
    />
  );
};

ReactDOM.render(<ExampleComponent />, document.getElementById('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/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@13.0/dist/react-handsontable.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://handsontable.com/docs/13.0/scripts/fixer.js"></script>

<div id="example1" class="hot "></div>

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React Data Grid Dropdown cell type

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