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Row class and row style

Styling whole rows from the record, and how it survives recycling

rowClass · rowStyle

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The configuration

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@toclocoinc/lattice-grid@1.13.0/lattice-grid.min.css">
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@toclocoinc/lattice-grid@1.13.0/lattice-grid.min.js"></script>

<div id="grid" style="height: 540px"></div>

<style>
  .lat-row.lg-demo-ceased { opacity: 0.55; font-style: italic; }
  .lat-row.lg-demo-provisioning { box-shadow: inset 3px 0 0 #1a6bc7; }
</style>

<script>
  const grid = LatticeGrid.createGrid(document.getElementById('grid'), {
    rowKey: 'id',
    // Both are re-evaluated on every repaint and are given the row rather than
    // a cell, so they can style on something the row does not show. Name a
    // class from rowClass (define it in CSS, as above); return a style object
    // from rowStyle when the value is a continuum with no sensible set of classes.
    rowClass: (p) => {
      const status = p.data.status;
      if (status === 'ceased') return 'lg-demo-ceased';
      if (status === 'provisioning') return 'lg-demo-provisioning';
      return '';
    },
    rowStyle: (p) => {
      const charge = Number(p.data.charge) || 0;
      if (charge < 1500) return {};
      const weight = Math.min(1, (charge - 1500) / 2500);
      return { background: `rgba(176, 48, 48, ${(weight * 0.14).toFixed(3)})` };
    },
    columns: [
      { field: 'circuit', title: 'Circuit', layout: { width: 180 } },
      { field: 'region', title: 'Region' },
      { field: 'status', title: 'Status', filter: { type: 'set' } },
      { field: 'bandwidth', title: 'Bandwidth', type: 'number', filter: { type: 'number' } },
      { field: 'charge', title: 'Monthly charge', type: 'number',
        format: { style: 'currency', currency: 'GBP' }, filter: { type: 'number' } },
    ],
    rows,  // circuit records
  });
</script>

Styling a whole row from its own data

Some formatting decisions apply to a record, not a cell: a cancelled order, a suspended account, a row flagged for review. Colouring every cell to express that is repetitive and easy to leave inconsistent once a column is added. Lattice Grid exposes this through rowClass and rowStyle, which take the row’s data and return a class name or a style object applied to the row element itself, so status colouring lives in one place rather than being duplicated per column. A developer reaches for this when the condition concerns the record as a whole, such as shading every row where status is "overdue", or giving archived rows a muted background regardless of which columns are visible.

The detail that matters in a JavaScript data grid built on row recycling is that the class or style must be re-evaluated as rows are recycled, not set once at first render. Lattice Grid calls rowClass and rowStyle again each time a recycled row element is bound to new data, so a virtualised view never leaves a stale class from a previous record underneath fresh data. The callback runs against plain row data with no DOM read, so scroll cost is a function call per row rather than a layout-triggering style read, keeping row styling in step with virtual scrolling on large datasets.

How do I style a whole row based on its data in a JavaScript grid?

Use rowClass for a class name or rowStyle for inline styles, both configured as a function that receives the row’s data and returns the class or style to apply to that row’s element. Lattice Grid re-evaluates the function whenever a row is bound during scrolling, including when the underlying DOM row is recycled for a different record, so the styling always matches the data currently shown rather than the row position.

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