Angular Data Grid Column Ordering & Visibility

Column ordering & visibility

Let users reorder Angular Data Grid columns by drag-and-drop and hide or show columns through a column chooser.

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Give users control over the layout: drag headers to reorder columns and toggle columns on and off to focus on what matters. Both features are driven through the headless table, so you can wire them into your own toolbar — as the column chooser in this demo does.

Column ordering & visibility

columnOrder makes headers draggable — drop one onto another to reorder (dragging never crosses a pinning boundary); pass an array for an initial order. columnVisibility enables hiding and showing columns through the headless table (column.toggleVisibility(), column.getIsVisible()); pass an object like { email: false } to start with a column hidden. Opt a column out with movable: false / hideable: false. This demo adds a column chooser built entirely with the toolbar slot template.

name email role


1	Alice Smith	[email protected]	admin
2	Bob Jones	[email protected]	editor
3	Carol Brown	[email protected]	viewer
4	Dave Taylor	[email protected]	admin
5	Eve Wilson	[email protected]	editor
6	Frank Davies	[email protected]	viewer
7	Grace Evans	[email protected]	admin
8	Heidi Thomas	[email protected]	editor
9	Ivan Smith	[email protected]	viewer
10	Judy Jones	[email protected]	admin

1–10 of 1000

import { Component } from '@angular/core'
import { DataGridComponent, DataGridSlotDirective } from '@coreui/angular-data-grid'
import type { Column, DataGridColumn, DataGridItem } from '@coreui/angular-data-grid'

const firstNames = ['Alice', 'Bob', 'Carol', 'Dave', 'Eve', 'Frank', 'Grace', 'Heidi', 'Ivan', 'Judy']
const lastNames = ['Smith', 'Jones', 'Brown', 'Taylor', 'Wilson', 'Davies', 'Evans', 'Thomas']
const roles = ['admin', 'editor', 'viewer']

@Component({
  selector: 'docs-data-grid-order-visibility-example',
  imports: [DataGridComponent, DataGridSlotDirective],
  template: `
    <c-data-grid
      [columns]="columns"
      [items]="items"
      [itemKey]="itemKey"
      [columnOrder]="true"
      [columnVisibility]="true"
      [pagination]="{ pageSize: 10 }"
    >
      <!-- Column chooser built with the toolbar slot and the headless table -->
      <ng-template cDataGridSlot="toolbar" let-table>
        <div class="d-flex gap-3 mb-2">
          @for (column of table.getAllLeafColumns(); track column.id) {
            @if (column.getCanHide()) {
              <label class="form-check form-check-inline m-0">
                <input
                  type="checkbox"
                  class="form-check-input me-1"
                  [checked]="column.getIsVisible()"
                  (change)="toggleColumn(column, $event)"
                />
                {{ column.id }}
              </label>
            }
          }
        </div>
      </ng-template>
    </c-data-grid>
  `
})
export class DataGridOrderVisibilityExample {
  readonly columns: DataGridColumn[] = [
    // movable/hideable: false keeps the key column in place
    {
 key: 'id', label: '#', width: 90, movable: false, hideable: false
},
    { key: 'name', label: 'Name' },
    { key: 'email', label: 'Email', style: { width: '30%' } },
    { key: 'role', label: 'Role', width: 110 }
  ]
readonly items: DataGridItem[] = Array.from({ length: 1000 }, (_, i) => {
    const name = `${firstNames[i % firstNames.length]} ${lastNames[i % lastNames.length]}`
    return {
      id: i + 1,
      name,
      email: `${name.toLowerCase().replace(' ', '.')}${i}@example.com`,
      role: roles[i % roles.length]
    }
  })
readonly itemKey = (item: DataGridItem) => String(item.id)

  toggleColumn(column: Column<DataGridItem, unknown>, event: Event) {
    column.toggleVisibility((event.target as HTMLInputElement).checked)
  }
}

Options

Option	Type	Default	Description
`columnOrder`	`boolean \| string[]`	`false`	Drag-and-drop reordering; an array sets the initial order. Never crosses a pinning boundary.
`columnVisibility`	`boolean \| Record<string, boolean>`	`false`	Enables hiding/showing columns; an object sets the initial visibility.
`movable` (column)	`boolean`	`true`	Set `false` to exclude a column from reordering.
`hideable` (column)	`boolean`	`true`	Set `false` to prevent hiding a column.

Reordering emits the orderChange output { columnOrder }; toggling visibility emits the visibilityChange output { columnVisibility }. The column menu offers a keyboard-accessible Move left/right as an alternative to drag-and-drop.