Data Table (Editable) Tutorial

We need to start by defining our columns that describe the shape of our data. The column var should be typed as a list of dict (list[dict]), where each item describes the attributes of a single column in the table.

Each column dict recognizes the keys below:

1. title: The text to display in the header of the column
2. id: An id for the column, if not defined, will default to a lower case of title
3. width: The width of the column (in pixels)
4. type: The type of the columns, default to "str"

Below we define DataTableState with columns definitions in the cols var, and data about Harry Potter characters in the data var..

class DataTableState(rx.State):
    """The app state."""
    cols: list[dict] = [
        {"title": "Title", "type": "str"},
        {
            "title": "Name",
            "type": "str",
            "width": 300,
        },
        {
            "title": "Birth",
            "type": "str",
            "width": 150,
        },
        {
            "title": "Human",
            "type": "bool",
            "width": 80,
        },
        {
            "title": "House",
            "type": "str",
        },
        {
            "title": "Wand",
            "type": "str",
            "width": 250,
        },
        {
            "title": "Patronus",
            "type": "str",
        },
        {
            "title": "Blood status",
            "type": "str",
            "width": 200,
        },
    ]
    data = [
        ["1", "Harry James Potter", "31 July 1980", True, "Gryffindor", "11'  Holly  phoenix feather", "Stag", "Half-blood"],
        ["2", "Ronald Bilius Weasley", "1 March 1980", True,"Gryffindor", "12' Ash unicorn tail hair", "Jack Russell terrier", "Pure-blood"],
        ["3", "Hermione Jean Granger", "19 September, 1979", True, "Gryffindor", "10¾'  vine wood dragon heartstring", "Otter", "Muggle-born"], 
        ["4", "Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore", "Late August 1881", True, "Gryffindor", "15' Elder Thestral tail hair core", "Phoenix", "Half-blood"], 
        ["5", "Rubeus Hagrid", "6 December 1928", False, "Gryffindor", "16'  Oak unknown core", "None", "Part-Human (Half-giant)"], 
        ["6", "Fred Weasley", "1 April, 1978", True, "Gryffindor", "Unknown", "Unknown", "Pure-blood"], 
        ["7", "George Weasley", "1 April, 1978", True, "Gryffindor", "Unknown", "Unknown", "Pure-blood"],
    ]

We then define a basic table by passing the previously defined state vars as props columns and data to the rx.data_editor() component,

rx.data_editor(
    columns=DataTableState.cols,
    data=DataTableState.data,
)

This is enough to display the data, but there is no way to interact with it. On the next page we will explore how to add interactivity to our datatable.