AdaptTable for Base UI

Column management in Base UI

Everything a user expects to do to a column, without writing a column-settings panel: show and hide, reorder by drag, pin to either edge, resize by drag or keyboard, and switch row density.

Pinning is logical rather than physical, so a column pinned to the start stays on the correct side in a right-to-left layout.

The arrangement is state like any other: persist it to the URL, to localStorage, or to your own server through columnLayout and onColumnLayoutChange.

The menu is a Base UI Popover mounted through its own portal and positioner, with an eye button per column and a grip that reorders from the keyboard as well as by drag.

The code

import { DataTable } from "@adapttable/base-ui";

export function People({ rows, columns, layout, onLayout }) {
  return (
    <DataTable
      data={rows}
      columns={columns}
      rowKey={(row) => row.id}
      enableColumnMenu
      resizableColumns
      columnLayout={layout}
      onColumnLayoutChange={onLayout}
    />
  );
}

Install

pnpm add @adapttable/base-ui @adapttable/core @base-ui/react

The same feature in the other kits

• Column management in Mantine — Rounded, friendly, filled controls
• Column management in MUI — Material elevation, uppercase actions
• Column management in Chakra — Soft teal, generous radius
• Column management in Ant Design — Compact, tinted header, crisp
• Column management in Radix — Radix Themes, iris accent
• Column management in shadcn — Monochrome, ring focus
• Column management in Tailwind — Unstyled — your own classes

More Base UI features

• Filtering in Base UI — Kit-native operators, date ranges, checklists, an AND/OR tree, chips.
• Column groups in Base UI — Spanning headers that collapse to a stub, a kept child, or a custom cell.
• Row selection in Base UI — A set of ids that survives paging, with bulk actions over it.
• Rows in Base UI — Pin, drag-reorder, merge cells, and a 3-dot menu per row.
• Inline cell editing in Base UI — Kit-native editors in the cell; every write goes through your handler.
• Row grouping in Base UI — Nested group headers with counts, subtotals, footers and collapse state.
• Nested tables in Base UI — A real table under a row — same engine, own columns, own keys.
• Export and print in Base UI — CSV, XLSX and PDF from one seam — plus a real print layout.
• Large datasets in Base UI — 100k rows, 40 columns, virtualized rows and columns, sticky chrome.
• Tree data in Base UI — Rows that contain rows — nesting, chevrons, keyboard traversal.
• Mobile cards in Base UI — Every row becomes a card on phones. Automatically, with the same state.
• Pivot tables in Base UI — Rows down the side, dimensions across the top, subtotals at every level.
• Saved views in Base UI — Name an arrangement, share it as a link, manage the list in place.
• Spreadsheet formulas in Base UI — Computed columns typed as formulas, errors reported in the cell.
• Right-to-left Base UI data table — Arabic strings, a flipped axis, and a popover that opens from the right edge.
• Live updates in Base UI — Rows change while you read them. Sort and selection hold.
• Accessible Base UI data table — Arrow-key focus, a visible ring, and every announcement shown as text.

Reference: column-management, columns. More of this kit: AdaptTable for Base UI, or the live demo.