AdaptTable for Tailwind

Row reordering in Tailwind

Compose rowReorder from @adapttable/unstyled/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 Tailwind.

The grip and the confirmation menu carry the map's classes; the announcer is a live region, so a keyboard move is heard even when the handle is only a native button.

The code

import { DataTable } from "@adapttable/unstyled";
import { applyRowReorder } from "@adapttable/react";
import { rowReorder } from "@adapttable/unstyled/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/unstyled @adapttable/core

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 Base UI — Unstyled primitives, blue accent
• Row reordering in shadcn — Monochrome, ring focus

More Tailwind features

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

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