AdaptTable for Base UI

Inline cell editing in Base UI

Mark a column editable, pass onCellEdit, and double-click opens a Base UI editor in the cell. Enter commits, Escape cancels, Tab moves to the next editable cell.

The table never mutates your rows. It hands your handler the row, the column and the new value, and shows whatever you hand back — which is what makes optimistic updates, validation and rollback yours to decide.

With cellNavigation on, the same handler receives whole blocks: paste a spreadsheet range with Ctrl+V, drag the fill handle, and undo the entire paste with one Ctrl+Z.

The editors are Base UI's Input, Select and Checkbox; because Base UI does not forward a ref to the inner input, the cell finds the focusable node itself when the editor mounts.

The code

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

const columns = [
  { key: "name", editable: true },
  {
    key: "status",
    editable: true,
    editor: { type: "select", options: ["active", "on-leave"] },
  },
  { key: "budget", editable: true, editor: "number" },
];

export function People({ rows, onSave }) {
  return (
    <DataTable
      data={rows}
      columns={columns}
      rowKey={(row) => row.id}
      cellNavigation
      editHistory
      onCellEdit={(row, key, value) =>
        onSave({ ...row, [key]: value })
      }
    />
  );
}

Install

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

The same feature in the other kits

• Inline cell editing in Mantine — Rounded, friendly, filled controls
• Inline cell editing in MUI — Material elevation, uppercase actions
• Inline cell editing in Chakra — Soft teal, generous radius
• Inline cell editing in Ant Design — Compact, tinted header, crisp
• Inline cell editing in Radix — Radix Themes, iris accent
• Inline cell editing in shadcn — Monochrome, ring focus
• Inline cell editing 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 management in Base UI — Show, hide, reorder, pin and resize — from a menu you did not write.
• 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.
• 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: cell-editing, cell-navigation. More of this kit: AdaptTable for Base UI, or the live demo.