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React Data Grid RTL Support

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How CoreUI Data Grid behaves in right-to-left layouts — column order, reordering, resizing, keyboard direction and logical-property styling.

On this page

The Data Grid works in right-to-left layouts. Set dir="rtl" on the grid or on any ancestor — the grid reads its own computed direction, so a single RTL subtree inside an LTR page works as well as a whole RTL document.

<html dir="rtl">

Nothing else is required: there is no RTL option, no separate stylesheet and no mirrored build.

What follows the writing direction

  • Column layout. The first column sits on the right, and every logical position follows from there. Pinned columns pin to the inline edges, so start is the right edge and end the left one.
  • Column reordering. Dragging a header runs on a logical axis, so the live preview, the drop slot and the emitted orderChange describe positions in column order, not in pixels. The same gesture produces the same result it would in LTR, travelling the other way on screen.
  • Column resizing. The handle sits on each column’s inline end, which under RTL is its left edge. Dragging it outward widens the column.
  • Row reordering. Unaffected: rows move on the vertical axis.
  • Keyboard navigation. Arrow keys are physical, column order is logical, so the two horizontal keys trade places: → moves toward the first column and ← toward the last. Shift+arrow grows a cell selection the same way. Vertical keys, Home/End and PageUp/PageDown are unchanged.
  • Chrome. The toolbar, pagination, column menu, filter dialogs and the column chooser lay out from the inline start and stay inside the grid.

Exports and print

CSV, Excel and print output carry values, not layout, so they are written in logical column order regardless of direction. A spreadsheet opening the file applies its own direction.

Switching direction at runtime

Flipping dir on a live grid is supported — an app with a language switcher does not need to re-create the grid. The direction is re-read where it matters: at the start of each drag and each resize.

Styling

The stylesheet uses logical properties throughout (inset-inline-*, margin-inline-*, text-align: start), so custom CSS built on the design tokens mirrors with it. Reach for logical properties in your own overrides too — a hard-coded left or margin-right is what breaks an otherwise direction-agnostic grid.