AdaptTable for Base UI

Row reordering in Base UI

Compose rowReorder from @adapttable/base-ui/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 Base UI.

The grip is a Base UI Button and the confirmation is a Base UI Menu; the announcer sits beside them so a keyboard move is heard once.

The code

import { DataTable } from "@adapttable/base-ui";
import { applyRowReorder } from "@adapttable/react";
import { rowReorder } from "@adapttable/base-ui/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/base-ui @adapttable/core @base-ui/react

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 Ant Design — Compact, tinted header, crisp
• Row reordering in Radix — Radix Themes, iris accent
• Row reordering in shadcn — Monochrome, ring focus
• Row reordering in Tailwind — Unstyled — your own classes

More Base UI features

• Filtering in Base UI — Operators, an AND/OR tree, chips, and find in the same URL.
• 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 rows, merge cells, and a 3-dot menu for add and delete.
• Inline cell editing in Base UI — Kit-native editors in the cell; every write goes through your handler.
• Row grouping in Base UI — Drag, keyboard and mobile grouping controls with live aggregation overrides.
• Aggregation in Base UI — Footer totals, pinned summaries, group aggregates — not data rows.
• Nested tables in Base UI — A real table under a row — same engine, own columns, own keys.
• Export and print in Base UI — Browser files or cancellable server jobs — CSV, XLSX and PDF.
• Row and column virtualization in Base UI — 100k rows, 40 columns, virtualized rows and columns, sticky chrome.
• Tree data in Base UI — Nesting, chevrons, URL expansion, and host-owned tree moves.
• 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 — ROUND, POWER, SQRT, IF — computed columns, errors 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, forced-colors, and live announcements.
• AI table assistant in Base UI — Native assistant, feature-aware prompts and governed action receipts.

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