AdaptTable for Ant Design

Row reordering in Ant Design

Compose rowReorder from @adapttable/antd/row-reorder and a grip appears. Space lifts a row, arrows move it, Space drops it. The table never mutates your array: onRowReorder asks the host, and the host writes.

movePolicy: "confirm" opens the kit's own move menu before a drop lands. Grouped moves stay inside a group unless onGroupMove says otherwise; tree moves stay under the same parent unless onTreeMove accepts a new one. A second move cannot start while a host confirmation is still pending.

Row identity is the row key, not the visual index — a virtual window or a later page does not lie about where the row sat. The grip, the move buttons and the confirmation menu are Ant Design.

The grip is antd's own handle column and the confirmation is an antd Dropdown, so a drop that needs approval uses the same overlay antd already uses for row actions.

The code

import { DataTable } from "@adapttable/antd";
import { applyRowReorder } from "@adapttable/react";
import { rowReorder } from "@adapttable/antd/row-reorder";

export function Tasks({ rows, setRows, columns }) {
  return (
    <DataTable
      data={rows}
      columns={columns}
      rowKey={(row) => row.id}
      features={[
        rowReorder((from, to) => {
          setRows((current) => applyRowReorder(current, from, to));
        }, { movePolicy: "confirm" }),
      ]}
    />
  );
}

Install

pnpm add @adapttable/antd @adapttable/core antd

The same feature in the other kits

• Row reordering in Mantine — Rounded, friendly, filled controls
• Row reordering in MUI — Material elevation, uppercase actions
• Row reordering in Chakra — Soft teal, generous radius
• Row reordering in Radix — Radix Themes, iris accent
• Row reordering in Base UI — Unstyled primitives, blue accent
• Row reordering in shadcn — Monochrome, ring focus
• Row reordering in Tailwind — Unstyled — your own classes

More Ant Design features

• Filtering in Ant Design — Operators, an AND/OR tree, chips, and find in the same URL.
• Column management in Ant Design — Show, hide, reorder, pin and resize — from a menu you did not write.
• Column groups in Ant Design — Spanning headers that collapse to a stub, a kept child, or a custom cell.
• Row selection in Ant Design — A set of ids that survives paging, with bulk actions over it.
• Rows in Ant Design — Pin rows, merge cells, and a 3-dot menu for add and delete.
• Inline cell editing in Ant Design — Kit-native editors in the cell; every write goes through your handler.
• Row grouping in Ant Design — Drag, keyboard and mobile grouping controls with live aggregation overrides.
• Aggregation in Ant Design — Footer totals, pinned summaries, group aggregates — not data rows.
• Nested tables in Ant Design — A real table under a row — same engine, own columns, own keys.
• Export and print in Ant Design — Browser files or cancellable server jobs — CSV, XLSX and PDF.
• Row and column virtualization in Ant Design — 100k rows, 40 columns, virtualized rows and columns, sticky chrome.
• Tree data in Ant Design — Nesting, chevrons, URL expansion, and host-owned tree moves.
• Mobile cards in Ant Design — Every row becomes a card on phones. Automatically, with the same state.
• Pivot tables in Ant Design — Rows down the side, dimensions across the top, subtotals at every level.
• Saved views in Ant Design — Name an arrangement, share it as a link, manage the list in place.
• Spreadsheet formulas in Ant Design — ROUND, POWER, SQRT, IF — computed columns, errors in the cell.
• Right-to-left Ant Design data table — Arabic strings, a flipped axis, and a popover that opens from the right edge.
• Live updates in Ant Design — Rows change while you read them. Sort and selection hold.
• Accessible Ant Design data table — Arrow-key focus, a visible ring, forced-colors, and live announcements.
• AI table assistant in Ant Design — Native assistant, feature-aware prompts and governed action receipts.

Reference: row-reordering. More of this kit: AdaptTable for Ant Design, or the live demo.