AdaptTable for Chakra

Inline cell editing in Chakra

Mark a column editable, pass onCellEdit, and double-click opens a Chakra 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 Chakra's Input and NativeSelect at size sm; Chakra v3 ships no NumberInput here, so a number cell is an Input typed number and the validation message is the table's own.

The code

import { DataTable } from "@adapttable/chakra";

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/chakra @adapttable/core @chakra-ui/react @emotion/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 Ant Design — Compact, tinted header, crisp
• Inline cell editing in Radix — Radix Themes, iris accent
• Inline cell editing in Base UI — Unstyled primitives, blue accent
• Inline cell editing in shadcn — Monochrome, ring focus
• Inline cell editing in Tailwind — Unstyled — your own classes

More Chakra features

• Filtering in Chakra — Kit-native operators, date ranges, checklists, an AND/OR tree, chips.
• Column management in Chakra — Show, hide, reorder, pin and resize — from a menu you did not write.
• Column groups in Chakra — Spanning headers that collapse to a stub, a kept child, or a custom cell.
• Row selection in Chakra — A set of ids that survives paging, with bulk actions over it.
• Rows in Chakra — Pin, drag-reorder, merge cells, and a 3-dot menu per row.
• Row grouping in Chakra — Nested group headers with counts, subtotals, footers and collapse state.
• Nested tables in Chakra — A real table under a row — same engine, own columns, own keys.
• Export and print in Chakra — CSV, XLSX and PDF from one seam — plus a real print layout.
• Large datasets in Chakra — 100k rows, 40 columns, virtualized rows and columns, sticky chrome.
• Tree data in Chakra — Rows that contain rows — nesting, chevrons, keyboard traversal.
• Mobile cards in Chakra — Every row becomes a card on phones. Automatically, with the same state.
• Pivot tables in Chakra — Rows down the side, dimensions across the top, subtotals at every level.
• Saved views in Chakra — Name an arrangement, share it as a link, manage the list in place.
• Spreadsheet formulas in Chakra — Computed columns typed as formulas, errors reported in the cell.
• Right-to-left Chakra data table — Arabic strings, a flipped axis, and a popover that opens from the right edge.
• Live updates in Chakra — Rows change while you read them. Sort and selection hold.
• Accessible Chakra 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 Chakra, or the live demo.