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Table

A semantic table for presenting tabular data.

If you just want to represent static data then the rx.data_table might be a better fit for your use case as it comes with in-built pagination, search and sorting.

Full nameEmailGroup
Danilo Sousadanilo@example.comDeveloper
Zahra Ambessazahra@example.comAdmin
Jasper Eriksjasper@example.comDeveloper
rx.table.root(
    rx.table.header(
        rx.table.row(
            rx.table.column_header_cell("Full name"),
            rx.table.column_header_cell("Email"),
            rx.table.column_header_cell("Group"),
        ),
    ),
    rx.table.body(
        rx.table.row(
            rx.table.row_header_cell("Danilo Sousa"),
            rx.table.cell("danilo@example.com"),
            rx.table.cell("Developer"),
        ),
        rx.table.row(
            rx.table.row_header_cell("Zahra Ambessa"),
            rx.table.cell("zahra@example.com"),
            rx.table.cell("Admin"),
        ),
        rx.table.row(
            rx.table.row_header_cell("Jasper Eriks"),
            rx.table.cell("jasper@example.com"),
            rx.table.cell("Developer"),
        ),
    ),
)

Many times there is a need for the data we represent in our table to be dynamic. Dynamic data must be in State. Later we will show an example of how to access data from a database and how to load data from a source file.

In this example there is a people data structure in State that is iterated through using rx.foreach.

Full nameEmailGroup
Danilo Sousadanilo@example.comDeveloper
Zahra Ambessazahra@example.comAdmin
Jasper Eriksjasper@example.comDeveloper
class TableForEachState(rx.State):
    people: list[list] = [
        ["Danilo Sousa", "danilo@example.com", "Developer"],
        ["Zahra Ambessa", "zahra@example.com", "Admin"],
        ["Jasper Eriks", "jasper@example.com", "Developer"],
    ]


def show_person(person: list):
    """Show a person in a table row."""
    return rx.table.row(
        rx.table.cell(person[0]),
        rx.table.cell(person[1]),
        rx.table.cell(person[2]),
    )


def foreach_table_example():
    return rx.table.root(
        rx.table.header(
            rx.table.row(
                rx.table.column_header_cell("Full name"),
                rx.table.column_header_cell("Email"),
                rx.table.column_header_cell("Group"),
            ),
        ),
        rx.table.body(
            rx.foreach(
                TableForEachState.people, show_person
            )
        ),
    )

It is also possible to define a class such as Person below and then iterate through this data structure, as a list[Person].

class Person(rx.Base):
    full_name: str
    email: str
    group: str

In this example we sort and filter the data.

The state variable _people is set to be a backend-only variable. This is done incase the variable is very large in order to reduce network traffic and improve performance.

For sorting the rx.select component is used. The data is sorted based on the attributes of the Person class. When a select item is selected, as the on_change event trigger is hooked up to the set_sort_value event handler, the data is sorted based on the state variable sort_value attribute selected. (Every base var has a built-in event handler to set it's value for convenience, called set_VARNAME.)

For filtering the rx.input component is used. The data is filtered based on the search query entered into the rx.input component. When a search query is entered, as the on_change event trigger is hooked up to the set_search_value event handler, the data is filtered based on if the state variable search_value is present in any of the data in that specific Person.

current_people is an rx.cached_var. It is a var that is only recomputed when the other state vars it depends on change. This is to ensure that the People shown in the table are always up to date whenever they are searched or sorted.

Full nameEmailGroup
Danilo Sousadanilo@example.comDeveloper
Zahra Ambessazahra@example.comAdmin
Jasper Erikszjasper@example.comB-Developer
class Person(rx.Base):
    full_name: str
    email: str
    group: str


class TableSortingState(rx.State):
    _people: list[Person] = [
        Person(
            full_name="Danilo Sousa",
            email="danilo@example.com",
            group="Developer",
        ),
        Person(
            full_name="Zahra Ambessa",
            email="zahra@example.com",
            group="Admin",
        ),
        Person(
            full_name="Jasper Eriks",
            email="zjasper@example.com",
            group="B-Developer",
        ),
    ]

    sort_value = ""
    search_value = ""

    @rx.cached_var
    def current_people(self) -> list[Person]:
        people = self._people

        if self.sort_value != "":
            people = sorted(
                people,
                key=lambda user: getattr(
                    user, self.sort_value
                ).lower(),
            )

        if self.search_value != "":
            people = [
                person
                for person in people
                if any(
                    self.search_value
                    in getattr(person, attr).lower()
                    for attr in [
                        "full_name",
                        "email",
                        "group",
                    ]
                )
            ]
        return people


def show_person(person: list):
    """Show a person in a table row."""
    return rx.table.row(
        rx.table.cell(person.full_name),
        rx.table.cell(person.email),
        rx.table.cell(person.group),
    )


def sorting_table_example():
    return rx.vstack(
        rx.select(
            ["full_name", "email", "group"],
            placeholder="Sort By: full_name",
            on_change=TableSortingState.set_sort_value,
        ),
        rx.input(
            placeholder="Search here...",
            on_change=TableSortingState.set_search_value,
        ),
        rx.table.root(
            rx.table.header(
                rx.table.row(
                    rx.table.column_header_cell(
                        "Full name"
                    ),
                    rx.table.column_header_cell("Email"),
                    rx.table.column_header_cell("Group"),
                ),
            ),
            rx.table.body(
                rx.foreach(
                    TableSortingState.current_people,
                    show_person,
                )
            ),
        ),
    )

The more common use case for building an rx.table is to use data from a database.

The code below shows how to load data from a database and place it in an rx.table.

A Customer model is defined that inherits from rx.Model.

The load_entries event handler executes a query that is used to request information from a database table. This load_entries event handler is called on the on_mount event trigger of the rx.table.root.

If you want to load the data when the page in the app loads you can set on_load in app.add_page() to equal this event handler, like app.add_page(page_name, on_load=State.load_entries).

class Customer(rx.Model, table=True):
    """The customer model."""

    name: str
    email: str
    phone: str
    address: str
NameEmailPhoneAddress
from sqlmodel import select


class DatabaseTableState(rx.State):
    users: list[Customer] = []

    def load_entries(self) -> list[Customer]:
        """Get all users from the database."""
        with rx.session() as session:
            self.users = session.exec(
                select(Customer)
            ).all()


def show_customer(user: Customer):
    """Show a customer in a table row."""
    return rx.table.row(
        rx.table.cell(user.name),
        rx.table.cell(user.email),
        rx.table.cell(user.phone),
        rx.table.cell(user.address),
    )


def loading_data_table_example():
    return rx.table.root(
        rx.table.header(
            rx.table.row(
                rx.table.column_header_cell("Name"),
                rx.table.column_header_cell("Email"),
                rx.table.column_header_cell("Phone"),
                rx.table.column_header_cell("Address"),
            ),
        ),
        rx.table.body(
            rx.foreach(
                DatabaseTableState.users, show_customer
            )
        ),
        on_mount=DatabaseTableState.load_entries,
    )

In this example we sort and filter the data.

For sorting the rx.select component is used. The data is sorted based on the attributes of the Customer class. When a select item is selected, as the on_change event trigger is hooked up to the sort_values event handler, the data is sorted based on the state variable sort_value attribute selected.

The sorting query gets the sort_column based on the state variable sort_value, it gets the order using the asc function from sql and finally uses the order_by function.

For filtering the rx.input component is used. The data is filtered based on the search query entered into the rx.input component. When a search query is entered, as the on_change event trigger is hooked up to the filter_values event handler, the data is filtered based on if the state variable search_value is present in any of the data in that specific Customer.

The % character before and after search_value makes it a wildcard pattern that matches any sequence of characters before or after the search_value. query.where(...) modifies the existing query to include a filtering condition. The or_ operator is a logical OR operator that combines multiple conditions. The query will return results that match any of these conditions. Customer.name.ilike(search_value) checks if the name column of the Customer table matches the search_value pattern in a case-insensitive manner (ilike stands for "case-insensitive like").

class Customer(rx.Model, table=True):
    """The customer model."""

    name: str
    email: str
    phone: str
    address: str
NameEmailPhoneAddress
from sqlmodel import select, asc, or_


class DatabaseTableState2(rx.State):
    users: list[Customer] = []

    sort_value = ""
    search_value = ""

    def load_entries(self) -> list[Customer]:
        """Get all users from the database."""
        with rx.session() as session:
            query = select(Customer)

            if self.search_value != "":
                search_value = (
                    f"%{self.search_value.lower()}%"
                )
                query = query.where(
                    or_(
                        Customer.name.ilike(search_value),
                        Customer.email.ilike(search_value),
                        Customer.phone.ilike(search_value),
                        Customer.address.ilike(
                            search_value
                        ),
                    )
                )

            if self.sort_value != "":
                sort_column = getattr(
                    Customer, self.sort_value
                )
                order = asc(sort_column)
                query = query.order_by(order)

            self.users = session.exec(query).all()

    def sort_values(self, sort_value):
        self.sort_value = sort_value
        self.load_entries()

    def filter_values(self, search_value):
        self.search_value = search_value
        self.load_entries()


def show_customer(user: Customer):
    """Show a customer in a table row."""
    return rx.table.row(
        rx.table.cell(user.name),
        rx.table.cell(user.email),
        rx.table.cell(user.phone),
        rx.table.cell(user.address),
    )


def loading_data_table_example2():
    return rx.vstack(
        rx.select(
            ["name", "email", "phone", "address"],
            placeholder="Sort By: Name",
            on_change=lambda value: DatabaseTableState2.sort_values(
                value
            ),
        ),
        rx.input(
            placeholder="Search here...",
            on_change=lambda value: DatabaseTableState2.filter_values(
                value
            ),
        ),
        rx.table.root(
            rx.table.header(
                rx.table.row(
                    rx.table.column_header_cell("Name"),
                    rx.table.column_header_cell("Email"),
                    rx.table.column_header_cell("Phone"),
                    rx.table.column_header_cell("Address"),
                ),
            ),
            rx.table.body(
                rx.foreach(
                    DatabaseTableState2.users, show_customer
                )
            ),
            on_mount=DatabaseTableState2.load_entries,
        ),
    )

Pagination is an important part of database management, especially when working with large datasets. It helps in enabling efficient data retrieval by breaking down results into manageable loads.

The purpose of this code is to retrieve a specific subset of rows from the Customer table based on the specified pagination parameters offset and limit.

query.offset(self.offset) modifies the query to skip a certain number of rows before returning the results. The number of rows to skip is specified by self.offset.

query.limit(self.limit) modifies the query to limit the number of rows returned. The maximum number of rows to return is specified by self.limit.

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NameEmailPhoneAddress
from sqlmodel import select, func


class DatabaseTableState3(rx.State):
    users: list[Customer] = []

    total_items: int
    offset: int = 0
    limit: int = 3

    @rx.cached_var
    def page_number(self) -> int:
        return (
            (self.offset // self.limit)
            + 1
            + (1 if self.offset % self.limit else 0)
        )

    @rx.cached_var
    def total_pages(self) -> int:
        return self.total_items // self.limit + (
            1 if self.total_items % self.limit else 0
        )

    def prev_page(self):
        self.offset = max(self.offset - self.limit, 0)
        self.load_entries()

    def next_page(self):
        if self.offset + self.limit < self.total_items:
            self.offset += self.limit
        self.load_entries()

    def _get_total_items(self, session):
        """Return the total number of items in the Customer table."""
        self.total_items = session.exec(
            select(func.count(Customer.id))
        ).one()

    def load_entries(self) -> list[Customer]:
        """Get all users from the database."""
        with rx.session() as session:
            query = select(Customer)

            # Apply pagination
            query = query.offset(self.offset).limit(
                self.limit
            )

            self.users = session.exec(query).all()
            self._get_total_items(session)


def show_customer(user: Customer):
    """Show a customer in a table row."""
    return rx.table.row(
        rx.table.cell(user.name),
        rx.table.cell(user.email),
        rx.table.cell(user.phone),
        rx.table.cell(user.address),
    )


def loading_data_table_example3():
    return rx.vstack(
        rx.hstack(
            rx.button(
                "Prev",
                on_click=DatabaseTableState3.prev_page,
            ),
            rx.text(
                f"Page {DatabaseTableState3.page_number} / {DatabaseTableState3.total_pages}"
            ),
            rx.button(
                "Next",
                on_click=DatabaseTableState3.next_page,
            ),
        ),
        rx.table.root(
            rx.table.header(
                rx.table.row(
                    rx.table.column_header_cell("Name"),
                    rx.table.column_header_cell("Email"),
                    rx.table.column_header_cell("Phone"),
                    rx.table.column_header_cell("Address"),
                ),
            ),
            rx.table.body(
                rx.foreach(
                    DatabaseTableState3.users, show_customer
                )
            ),
            on_mount=DatabaseTableState3.load_entries,
        ),
    )

The real power of the rx.table comes where you are able to visualise, add and edit data live in your app. Check out these apps and code to see how this is done: app: https://customer-data-app.reflex.run code: https://github.com/reflex-dev/reflex-examples/tree/main/customer_data_app and code: https://github.com/reflex-dev/data-viewer.

Most users will want to download their data after they have got the subset that they would like in their table.

In this example there are buttons to download the data as a json and as a csv.

For the json download the rx.download is in the frontend code attached to the on_click event trigger for the button. This works because if the Var is not already a string, it will be converted to a string using JSON.stringify.

For the csv download the rx.download is in the backend code as an event_handler download_csv_data. There is also a helper function _convert_to_csv that converts the data in self.users to csv format.

NameEmailPhoneAddress
import io
import csv
from sqlmodel import select


class TableDownloadState(rx.State):
    users: list[Customer] = []

    def load_entries(self) -> list[Customer]:
        """Get all users from the database."""
        with rx.session() as session:
            self.users = session.exec(
                select(Customer)
            ).all()

    def _convert_to_csv(self) -> str:
        """Convert the users data to CSV format."""

        # Make sure to load the entries first
        if not self.users:
            self.load_entries()

        # Define the CSV file header based on the Customer model's attributes
        fieldnames = list(Customer.__fields__)

        # Create a string buffer to hold the CSV data
        output = io.StringIO()
        writer = csv.DictWriter(
            output, fieldnames=fieldnames
        )
        writer.writeheader()
        for user in self.users:
            writer.writerow(user.dict())

        # Get the CSV data as a string
        csv_data = output.getvalue()
        output.close()
        return csv_data

    def download_csv_data(self):
        csv_data = self._convert_to_csv()
        return rx.download(
            data=csv_data,
            filename="data.csv",
        )


def show_customer(user: Customer):
    """Show a customer in a table row."""
    return rx.table.row(
        rx.table.cell(user.name),
        rx.table.cell(user.email),
        rx.table.cell(user.phone),
        rx.table.cell(user.address),
    )


def download_data_table_example():
    return rx.vstack(
        rx.table.root(
            rx.table.header(
                rx.table.row(
                    rx.table.column_header_cell("Name"),
                    rx.table.column_header_cell("Email"),
                    rx.table.column_header_cell("Phone"),
                    rx.table.column_header_cell("Address"),
                ),
            ),
            rx.table.body(
                rx.foreach(
                    TableDownloadState.users, show_customer
                )
            ),
            on_mount=TableDownloadState.load_entries,
        ),
        rx.hstack(
            rx.button(
                "Download as JSON",
                on_click=rx.download(
                    data=TableDownloadState.users,
                    filename="data.json",
                ),
            ),
            rx.button(
                "Download as CSV",
                on_click=TableDownloadState.download_csv_data,
            ),
            spacing="7",
        ),
        spacing="5",
    )

Your Team

Invite and manage your team members

Danilo Sousadanilo@example.comDeveloper
Zahra Ambessazahra@example.comAdmin
Jasper Erikssonjasper@example.comDeveloper
rx.flex(
    rx.heading("Your Team"),
    rx.text("Invite and manage your team members"),
    rx.flex(
        rx.input(placeholder="Email Address"),
        rx.button("Invite"),
        justify="center",
        spacing="2",
    ),
    rx.table.root(
        rx.table.body(
            rx.table.row(
                rx.table.cell(rx.avatar(fallback="DS")),
                rx.table.row_header_cell(
                    rx.link("Danilo Sousa")
                ),
                rx.table.cell("danilo@example.com"),
                rx.table.cell("Developer"),
                align="center",
            ),
            rx.table.row(
                rx.table.cell(rx.avatar(fallback="ZA")),
                rx.table.row_header_cell(
                    rx.link("Zahra Ambessa")
                ),
                rx.table.cell("zahra@example.com"),
                rx.table.cell("Admin"),
                align="center",
            ),
            rx.table.row(
                rx.table.cell(rx.avatar(fallback="JE")),
                rx.table.row_header_cell(
                    rx.link("Jasper Eriksson")
                ),
                rx.table.cell("jasper@example.com"),
                rx.table.cell("Developer"),
                align="center",
            ),
        ),
    ),
    direction="column",
    spacing="2",
)

A semantic table for presenting tabular data.

Full NameEmailGroup
Danilo Rosadanilo@example.comDeveloper
Zahra Ambessazahra@example.comAdmin
PropTypeDefault ValueValues
size
Union[Literal, Breakpoints]
variant
Literal
align
Union[str, int, bool]
summary
Union[str, int, bool]

Event Triggers

See the full list of default event triggers

The header of the table defines column names and other non-data elements.

PropTypeDefault ValueValues
align
Union[str, int, bool]

A row containing table cells.

Full NameEmailGroup
Danilo Rosa

danilo@example.com

danilo@yahoo.com

danilo@gmail.com

Developer
Zahra Ambessazahra@example.comAdmin
PropTypeDefault ValueValues
align
Literal
align
Union[str, int, bool]

A table cell that is semantically treated as a column header.

Full NameEmailGroup
Danilo Rosadanilo@example.comDeveloper
Zahra Ambessazahra@example.comAdmin
PropTypeDefault ValueValues
justify
Literal
align
Union[str, int, bool]
col_span
Union[str, int, bool]
headers
Union[str, int, bool]
row_span
Union[str, int, bool]
scope
Union[str, int, bool]

The body of the table contains the data rows.

PropTypeDefault ValueValues
align
Union[str, int, bool]

A cell containing data.

Full NameEmailGroup
Danilo Rosadanilo@example.comDeveloper
Zahra Ambessazahra@example.comAdmin
PropTypeDefault ValueValues
justify
Literal
align
Union[str, int, bool]
col_span
Union[str, int, bool]
headers
Union[str, int, bool]
row_span
Union[str, int, bool]

A table cell that is semantically treated as a row header.

Full NameEmailGroup
Danilo Rosadanilo@example.comDeveloper
Zahra Ambessazahra@example.comAdmin
PropTypeDefault ValueValues
justify
Literal
align
Union[str, int, bool]
col_span
Union[str, int, bool]
headers
Union[str, int, bool]
row_span
Union[str, int, bool]
scope
Union[str, int, bool]

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