Web Components Grid Conditional Styling

The Ignite UI for Web Components Conditional Styling feature in Web Components Grid allows custom styling on a row or cell level. The IgcGridComponent Conditional Styling functionality is used to visually emphasize or highlight data that meets certain criteria, making it easier for users to identify important information or trends within the grid.

Grid Conditional Row Styling

The IgcGridComponent component in Ignite UI for Web Components provides two ways to conditional styling of rows based on custom rules.

By setting rowClasses input on the IgcGridComponent component;
By setting rowStyles input on the IgcGridComponent component;

Further in this topic we will cover both of them in more details.

Using Row Classes

You can conditionally style the IgcGridComponent rows by setting the rowClasses input and define custom rules.

<igc-grid id="grid" height="600px" width="100%">
</igc-grid>

constructor() {
    var grid = this.grid = document.getElementById('grid') as IgcGrid;
    grid.rowClasses = this.rowClasses;
}

The rowClasses input accepts an object literal, containing key-value pairs, where the key is the name of the CSS class, while the value is either a callback function that returns a boolean, or boolean value.

public rowClasses = {
    activeRow: (row: IgcRowType) => row.index === 0
}

.activeRow {
    border: 2px solid #fc81b8;
    border-left: 3px solid #e41c77;
}

Demo

Using Row Styles

The IgcGridComponent control exposes the rowStyles property which allows conditional styling of the data rows. Similar to rowClasses it accepts an object literal where the keys are style properties and the values are expressions for evaluation. Also, you can apply regular styling (without any conditions).

The callback signature for both rowStyles and rowClasses is:

(row: IgcRowType) => boolean

Let's define our styles:

public rowStyles = {
    'background': (row: IgcRowType) => (+row.data['Change'] < 0 && +row.data['AnnualChange'] < 0) ? '#FF000088' : '#00000000',
    'border': (row: IgcRowType) => (+row.data['Change'] < 0 && +row.data['AnnualChange'] < 0) ? '2px solid' : '1px solid',
    'border-color': (row: IgcRowType) => (+row.data['Change'] < 0 && +row.data['AnnualChange'] < 0) ? '#FF000099' : '#E9E9E9'
};

<igc-grid id="grid1" height="500px" width="100%"
        auto-generate="false" allow-filtering="true">
</igc-grid>

constructor() {
    var grid1 = this.grid1 = document.getElementById('grid1') as IgcGridComponent;
    grid1.rowStyles = this.rowStyles;
}

Demo

Grid Conditional Cell Styling

Overview

The IgcGridComponent component in Ignite UI for Web Components provides two ways to conditional styling of cells based on custom rules.

By setting the IgcColumnComponent input cellClasses to an object literal containing key-value pairs. The key is the name of the CSS class, while the value is either a callback function that returns a boolean, or boolean value. The result is a convenient material styling of the cell.

Using Cell Classes

You can conditionally style the IgcGridComponent cells by setting the IgcColumnComponent cellClasses input and define custom rules.

<igc-column id="beatsPerMin" field="BeatsPerMinute" data-type="Number"></igc-column>

constructor() {
    var beatsPerMin = this.beatsPerMin = document.getElementById('beatsPerMin') as IgcColumnComponent;
    beatsPerMin.cellClasses = this.beatsPerMinuteClasses;
}

The cellClasses input accepts an object literal, containing key-value pairs, where the key is the name of the CSS class, while the value is either a callback function that returns a boolean, or boolean value.


private upFontCondition = (rowData: any, columnKey: any): boolean => {
    return rowData[columnKey] > 95;
}

private downFontCondition = (rowData: any, columnKey: any): boolean => {
    return rowData[columnKey] <= 95;
}

public beatsPerMinuteClasses = {
    downFont: this.downFontCondition,
    upFont: this.upFontCondition
};

.upFont {
    color: green !important;
}

.downFont {
    color: red !important;
}

Demo

By using the IgcColumnComponent input cellStyles which accepts an object literal where the keys are style properties and the values are expressions for evaluation.

The callback signature for both cellStyles and cellClasses is now changed to:

(rowData: any, columnKey: string, cellValue: any, rowIndex: number) => boolean

Using Cell Styles

Columns expose the cellStyles property which allows conditional styling of the column cells. Similar to cellClasses it accepts an object literal where the keys are style properties and the values are expressions for evaluation. Also, you can apply regular styling with ease (without any conditions).

Let's define our styles:

public webGridCellStylesHandler = {
    background: (rowData, columnKey, cellValue, rowIndex) => rowIndex % 2 === 0 ? "#EFF4FD" : null,
    color: (rowData, columnKey, cellValue, rowIndex) => {
        if (columnKey === "Position") {
            switch (cellValue) {
                case "up": return "#28a745";
                case "down": return "#dc3545";
                case "current": return "#17a2b8"
            }
        }
    }
}

<igc-column id="col1">
</igc-column>

constructor() {
    var col1 = document.getElementById('col1') as IgcColumnComponent;
    col1.cellStyles = this.webGridCellStylesHandler;
}

Demo

Known issues and limitations

If there are cells bind to the same condition (from different columns) and one cell is updated, the other cells won't be updated based on the new value, if the condition is met.

A check should be performed in order to apply the changes to the rest of the cells. The example below shows how to do that.

public backgroundClasses = {
    myBackground: (rowData: any, columnKey: string) => {
        return rowData.Col2 < 10;
    }
};

public editDone(evt) {
    this.Col1.cellClasses = {...this.backgroundClasses};
}

<igc-grid id="grid1" height="500px" width="100%" >
  <igc-column id="Col1" field="Col1" data-type="number"></igx-column>
  <igc-column id="Col2" field="Col2" data-type="number" editable="true"></igx-column>
  <igc-column id="Col3" field="Col3" header="Col3" data-type="string"></igx-column>
<igc-grid>

constructor() {
    var grid = this.grid = document.getElementById('grid1') as IgcGrid;
    var Col1 = this.Col1 = document.getElementById('Col1') as IgcColumnComponent;
    var Col2 = this.Col2 = document.getElementById('Col2') as IgcColumnComponent;
    var Col3 = this.Col3 = document.getElementById('Col3') as IgcColumnComponent;
    grid.data = this.data;
    grid.onCellEdit = this.editDone;
    Col1.cellClasses = this.backgroundClasses;
    Col2.cellClasses = this.backgroundClasses;
    Col3.cellClasses = this.backgroundClasses;
}

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