SlickGrid is a specialized JavaScript grid/spreadsheet component optimized for high performance, even with many thousands of rows of underlying data.
SlickGrid utilizes virtual rendering to enable you to easily work with hundreds of thousands of items without any drop in performance. This is achieved through virtual rendering where only what’s visible on the screen plus a small buffer is rendered. As the user scrolls, DOM nodes are continuously being created and removed. These operations are highly tuned to provide optimal performance under all browsers. The grid also adapts to the direction and speed of scroll to minimize the number of rows that need to be swapped out and to dynamically switch between synchronous and asynchronous rendering.
It is an advanced component and is a bit more difficult to learn and configure, but is correspondingly extremely flexible.
Some highlights:
- Adaptive virtual scrolling (handle hundreds of thousands of rows with extreme responsiveness)
- Extremely fast rendering speed
- Supports jQuery UI Themes
- Background post-rendering for richer cells
- Configurable & customizable
- Full keyboard navigation
- Column resize/reorder/show/hide
- Column autosizing & force-fit
- Pluggable cell formatters & editors
- Support for editing and creating new rows.
- Grouping, filtering, custom aggregators, and more!
- Advanced detached & multi-field editors with undo/redo support.
- “GlobalEditorLock” to manage concurrent edits in cases where multiple Views on a page can edit the same data.
