Vue Data GridCell Styles

Cells can be styled based on the column that they belong to or the data that they contain.

You can mix and match any of the following mechanisms:

• Cell Style: Set CSS properties on a cell to directly change its appearance.
• Cell Class: Attach a CSS class to a cell so that it can be styled by your application's style sheets.
• Cell Class Rules: Provide rules for applying CSS classes.

Each of these approaches are presented in the following sections.

Cell Style

Used to provide CSS styles directly (not using a class) to the cell. Can be either an object of CSS styles, or a function returning an object of CSS styles.

<ag-grid-vue
    :columnDefs="columnDefs"
    /* other grid options ... */>
</ag-grid-vue>

this.columnDefs = [
    // same style for each row
    {
        headerName: 'Static Styles',
        field: 'static',
        cellStyle: {color: 'red', 'background-color': 'green'}
    },
    // different styles for each row
    {
        headerName: 'Dynamic Styles',
        field: 'dynamic',
        cellStyle: params => {
            if (params.value === 'Police') {
                //mark police cells as red
                return {color: 'red', backgroundColor: 'green'};
            }
            return null;
        }
    },
];

Cell Class

Provides a class for the cells in this column. Can be a string (a class), array of strings (array of classes), or a function (that returns a string or an array of strings).

<ag-grid-vue
    :columnDefs="columnDefs"
    /* other grid options ... */>
</ag-grid-vue>

this.columnDefs = [
    // return same class for each row
    {
        headerName: 'Static Class',
        field: 'static',
        cellClass: 'my-class'
    },
    // return same array of classes for each row
    {
        headerName: 'Static Array of Classes',
        field: 'staticArray',
        cellClass: ['my-class1','my-class2'],
    },
    // return class based on function
    {
        headerName: 'Function Returns String',
        field: 'function',
        cellClass: params => {
            return params.value === 'something' ? 'my-class-1' : 'my-class-2';
        },
    },
    // return array of classes based on function
    {
        name: 'Function Returns Array',
        field: 'functionArray',
        cellClass: params => ['my-class-1','my-class-2'],
    }
];

Cell Class Rules

You can define rules which can be applied to include certain CSS classes via colDef.cellClassRules. These rules are provided as a JavaScript map where the keys are the class names and the values are expressions that if evaluated to true, the class gets used. The expression can either be a JavaScript function, or a string which is treated as a shorthand for a function by the grid.

The following snippet is cellClassRules using functions on a year column:

this.columnDefs = [
    {
        field: 'year',
        cellClassRules: {
            // apply green to 2008
            'rag-green-outer': params => params.value === 2008,
            // apply blue to 2004
            'rag-blue-outer': params => params.value === 2004,
            // apply red to 2000
            'rag-red-outer': params => params.value === 2000,
        }
    }
];

Cell Styling Properties

All cellClass cellStyle and cellClassRules functions take a CellClassParams.

As an alternative, you can also provide shorthands of the functions using an expression. The column Age in the example uses expressions. An expression is evaluated by the grid by executing the string as if it were a Javascript expression. The expression has the following attributes available to it (mapping the the attributes of the equivalent params object):

• x: maps value
• ctx: maps context
• node: maps node
• data: maps data
• colDef: maps colDef
• rowIndex: maps rowIndex
• api: maps the grid api

In other words, x and ctx map value and context, all other attributes map the parameters of the same name.

The following snippet is cellClassRules using expressions on an age column:

this.columnDefs = [
    {
        field: 'age',
        cellClassRules: {
            'rag-green': 'x < 20',
            'rag-blue': 'x >= 20 && x < 25',
            'rag-red': 'x >= 25',
        }
    }
];

Style Refresh

If you refresh a cell, or a cell is updated due to editing, the cellStyle, cellClass and cellClassRules are all applied again. This has the following effect:

• cellStyle: All new styles are applied. If a new style is the same as an old style, the new style overwrites the old style. If a new style is not present, the old style is left (the grid will NOT remove styles).
• cellClass: All new classes are applied. Old classes are not removed so be aware that classes will accumulate. If you want to remove old classes, then use cellClassRules.
• cellClassRules: Rules that return true will have the class applied the second time. Rules that return false will have the class removed second time.

// unsafe, the red will stay after initially applied
cellStyle: params => params.value > 80 ? { color: 'red' } : null

// safe, to black will override the red when the condition is not true
cellStyle: params => params.value > 80 ? { color: 'red' } : { color: 'black' }

Combined Example

Below shows both cssClassRules snippets above in a full working example. The example demonstrates the following:

• Age uses cellClassRules with expressions (strings instead of functions). Editing the cell will update the style.
• Year uses cellClassRules with functions. Editing the cell will update the style.
• Date and Sport use cellClass, Date sets explicitly, Sport sets using a function. Because a function is used for Sport, it can select class based on data value. Editing Sport will have undetermined results as the class values will accumulate.
• Gold sets cellStyle implicitly. It is not dependent on the cell value.
• Silver and Bronze set cellStyle using a function and depends on the value. Editing will update the cellStyle.

First & Last Columns

It's possible to style the cells in the first and last columns using CSS by targeting the .ag-column-first and .ag-column-last selectors as follows:

.ag-cell.ag-column-first {
    background-color: #2244CC44;
}

.ag-cell.ag-column-last {
    background-color: #CC333344;
}