Column menu

Display a configurable dropdown menu, triggered by clicking on a button in a column header.

Overview
Quick setup
Plugin configuration
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Overview

The DropdownMenu plugin enables you to add a configurable dropdown menu to the table's column headers. The dropdown menu acts like the context menu but is triggered by clicking the button in the header.

Quick setup

To enable the plugin, set the dropdownMenu configuration option to true when initializing Handsontable.

{
  "name": "handsontable",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "dependencies": {
    "react": "^18.2.0",
    "react-dom": "^18.2.0",
    "hyperformula": "^2.4.0",
    "handsontable": "14.6",
    "@handsontable/react": "14.6"
  },
  
  "browserslist": {
    "production": [
      ">0.2%",
      "not dead",
      "not op_mini all"
    ],
    "development": [
      "last 1 chrome version",
      "last 1 firefox version",
      "last 1 safari version"
    ]
  }
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>Handsontable</title>
  </head>

  <body>
    <noscript> You need to enable JavaScript to run this app. </noscript>
    <div id="root"></div>
  </body>
</html>

import React, { StrictMode } from "react";
import { createRoot } from "react-dom/client";
import "./styles.css";
import ExampleComponent from "./ExampleComponent";

const rootElement = document.getElementById("root");
const root = createRoot(rootElement);

root.render(
  <StrictMode>
    <ExampleComponent />
  </StrictMode>
);

import React from "react";
import { HotTable } from '@handsontable/react';
import { registerAllModules } from 'handsontable/registry';
import 'handsontable/dist/handsontable.full.min.css';

// register Handsontable's modules
registerAllModules();

const ExampleComponent = () => {
  return (
    <HotTable
      data={[
        ['A1', 'B1', 'C1', 'D1', 'E1', 'F1', 'G1'],
        ['A2', 'B2', 'C2', 'D2', 'E2', 'F2', 'G2'],
        ['A3', 'B3', 'C3', 'D3', 'E3', 'F3', 'G3'],
      ]}
      colHeaders={true}
      dropdownMenu={true}
      height="auto"
      autoWrapRow={true}
      autoWrapCol={true}
      licenseKey="non-commercial-and-evaluation"
    />
  );
};

export default ExampleComponent;

import { HotTable } from '@handsontable/react';
import { registerAllModules } from 'handsontable/registry';
import 'handsontable/dist/handsontable.full.min.css';

// register Handsontable's modules
registerAllModules();

const ExampleComponent = () => {
  return (
    <HotTable
      data={[
        ['A1', 'B1', 'C1', 'D1', 'E1', 'F1', 'G1'],
        ['A2', 'B2', 'C2', 'D2', 'E2', 'F2', 'G2'],
        ['A3', 'B3', 'C3', 'D3', 'E3', 'F3', 'G3'],
      ]}
      colHeaders={true}
      dropdownMenu={true}
      height="auto"
      autoWrapRow={true}
      autoWrapCol={true}
      licenseKey="non-commercial-and-evaluation"
    />
  );
};



ReactDOM.render(<ExampleComponent />, document.getElementById("example1"));

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/handsontable@14.6/dist/handsontable.full.min.js"></script>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/handsontable@14.6/dist/handsontable.full.min.css" /> 
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/react@17/umd/react.production.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/react-dom@17/umd/react-dom.production.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@handsontable/react@14.6/dist/react-handsontable.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://handsontable.com/docs/scripts/fixer.js"></script>

<div id="example1" class="hot "></div>

Plugin configuration

To use the default dropdown contents, set it to true, or to customize it by setting it to use a custom list of actions. For the available entry options reference, see the Context Menu demo.

{
  "name": "handsontable",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "dependencies": {
    "react": "^18.2.0",
    "react-dom": "^18.2.0",
    "hyperformula": "^2.4.0",
    "handsontable": "14.6",
    "@handsontable/react": "14.6"
  },
  
  "browserslist": {
    "production": [
      ">0.2%",
      "not dead",
      "not op_mini all"
    ],
    "development": [
      "last 1 chrome version",
      "last 1 firefox version",
      "last 1 safari version"
    ]
  }
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>Handsontable</title>
  </head>

  <body>
    <noscript> You need to enable JavaScript to run this app. </noscript>
    <div id="root"></div>
  </body>
</html>

import React, { StrictMode } from "react";
import { createRoot } from "react-dom/client";
import "./styles.css";
import ExampleComponent from "./ExampleComponent";

const rootElement = document.getElementById("root");
const root = createRoot(rootElement);

root.render(
  <StrictMode>
    <ExampleComponent />
  </StrictMode>
);

import React from "react";
import { HotTable } from '@handsontable/react';
import { registerAllModules } from 'handsontable/registry';
import 'handsontable/dist/handsontable.full.min.css';

// register Handsontable's modules
registerAllModules();

const ExampleComponent = () => {
  return (
    <HotTable
      data={[
        ['A1', 'B1', 'C1', 'D1', 'E1', 'F1', 'G1'],
        ['A2', 'B2', 'C2', 'D2', 'E2', 'F2', 'G2'],
        ['A3', 'B3', 'C3', 'D3', 'E3', 'F3', 'G3'],
      ]}
      colHeaders={true}
      autoWrapRow={true}
      autoWrapCol={true}
      licenseKey="non-commercial-and-evaluation"
      height="auto"
      dropdownMenu={[
        'remove_col',
        '---------',
        'make_read_only',
        '---------',
        'alignment',
      ]}
    />
  );
};

export default ExampleComponent;

import { HotTable } from '@handsontable/react';
import { registerAllModules } from 'handsontable/registry';
import 'handsontable/dist/handsontable.full.min.css';

// register Handsontable's modules
registerAllModules();

const ExampleComponent = () => {
  return (
    <HotTable
      data={[
        ['A1', 'B1', 'C1', 'D1', 'E1', 'F1', 'G1'],
        ['A2', 'B2', 'C2', 'D2', 'E2', 'F2', 'G2'],
        ['A3', 'B3', 'C3', 'D3', 'E3', 'F3', 'G3'],
      ]}
      colHeaders={true}
      autoWrapRow={true}
      autoWrapCol={true}
      licenseKey="non-commercial-and-evaluation"
      height="auto"
      dropdownMenu={[
        'remove_col',
        '---------',
        'make_read_only',
        '---------',
        'alignment',
      ]}
    />
  );
};



ReactDOM.render(<ExampleComponent />, document.getElementById("example2"));

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/handsontable@14.6/dist/handsontable.full.min.js"></script>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/handsontable@14.6/dist/handsontable.full.min.css" /> 
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/react@17/umd/react.production.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/react-dom@17/umd/react-dom.production.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@handsontable/react@14.6/dist/react-handsontable.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://handsontable.com/docs/scripts/fixer.js"></script>

<div id="example2" class="hot "></div>

Windows	macOS	Action	Excel	Sheets
`Shift`+`Alt`+`↓`	`Shift`+`Option`+`↓`	Open the column menu. Works in any cell, if the respective column header displays the menu button.	✗	✗
`Shift`+`Enter`	`Shift`+`Enter`	Open the column menu. Works only when you're selecting a column header that displays the column menu button.	✗	✗

Context menu