AdaptTable for Tailwind

Accessible Tailwind data table

Tab into the grid and the arrows move a visible focus, one cell at a time. Home and End jump to the row's edges.

Every move, sort, filter and edit is announced through a live region — the part of a table a sighted reader cannot check, so this page repeats those announcements as text as they happen.

columnSelectionCheckbox puts a named checkbox on each header so a column can be selected without a modifier key a touchscreen does not have. The grid and the checkboxes are Tailwind.

The grid is semantic markup carrying the map's classes; the header checkbox is a native input, and the focus ring is yours to dress — nothing in the map singles the active cell out.

The code

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

export function People({ rows, columns }) {
  return (
    <DataTable
      data={rows}
      columns={columns}
      rowKey={(row) => row.id}
      cellNavigation
      columnSelectionCheckbox
    />
  );
}

Install

pnpm add @adapttable/unstyled @adapttable/core

The same feature in the other kits

• Accessible Mantine data table — Rounded, friendly, filled controls
• Accessible MUI data table — Material elevation, uppercase actions
• Accessible Chakra data table — Soft teal, generous radius
• Accessible Ant Design data table — Compact, tinted header, crisp
• Accessible Radix data table — Radix Themes, iris accent
• Accessible Base UI data table — Unstyled primitives, blue accent
• Accessible shadcn data table — Monochrome, ring focus

More Tailwind features

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

Reference: accessibility, cell-navigation. More of this kit: AdaptTable for Tailwind, or the live demo.