React Grid - Virtual Scrolling

Virtual scrolling allows the Grid component to display thousands of records on a single page. You can use this feature as an alternative to paging.

Browser Support Notes:

• The following browsers do not support virtual scrolling because they do not support position: sticky:

  • Android Browser before 5.0
  • WebView for Android before 5.0
  • Internet Explorer

• Currently, there is an issue with virtual scrolling in Microsoft Edge:

  • sticky elements flicker on scroll

Related Plugins

The VirtualTable plugin implements the virtual scrolling mode, and it should be used instead of the Table as they implement the same interfaces.

Note that the plugin order is important.

Basic Setup

The virtual table contains only the rendered rows; others are replaced with two stub rows whose heights depend on the estimatedRowHeight property value and change dynamically as the user scrolls.

You can change the virtual table's height using the height property.

The following example demonstrates the basic Grid with virtual scrolling:

import React, { useState } from 'react';

export default () => {

The Grid also supports column virtualization, which is demonstrated in the following demo:

import React, { useState } from 'react';

export default () => {

Fill the Container

If the Grid should have the same size as the container element, set the VirtualTable plugin's height property to "auto" and the Grid root element's style setting to height: 100%.

import React, { useState } from 'react';

Scroll to Row

To scroll the table to a particular row, call the scrollToRow method and pass the row ID as its parameter. To call the method, you need the VirtualTable plugin's ref.

In the following demo, the scrollToRow method is used to scroll the table to a new or saved row. When you add a new row, it is added to the top of the table, and the table is scrolled to it. When you save the row, its position is changed according to sorting, and the table is scrolled to that position.

import React, { useState, useRef, useCallback } from 'react';

export default () => {

NOTE: Scrolling to a row cannot be used with lazy loading. This is because the Grid loads rows in parts in lazy loading mode, and scrolling to a row requires all the row IDs.

Note on the use of VirtualTable with DataTypeProvider and custom components

If you use a custom rowComponent or cellComponent, its height and the estimatedRowHeight value should be equal. The same applies to a custom formatter defined in the DataTypeProvider plugin.