Enable editing in single click in Angular Grid component

15 Jun 2021 / 3 minutes to read

Normal Editing

You can make a row editable on a single click with Normal mode of editing in Grid, by using the startEdit and endEdit methods.

Bind the mousedown event for Grid and in the event handler call the startEdit and endEdit, based on the clicked target element.

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app.component.ts

app.module.ts

main.ts

import { Component, OnInit, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
import { EditSettingsModel, ToolbarItems, GridComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-grids';
import { MouseEventArgs } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { data } from './datasource';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    template: `<ejs-grid #grid [dataSource]='data' [editSettings]='editSettings' [toolbar]='toolbar' allowPaging='true' (load)='load($event)'>
                <e-columns>
                    <e-column field='OrderID' headerText='Order ID' textAlign='Right' width=100 isPrimaryKey='true'></e-column>
                    <e-column field='CustomerID' headerText='Customer ID' width=120></e-column>
                    <e-column field='Freight' headerText='Freight' textAlign= 'Right' width=120 format= 'C2'></e-column>
                    <e-column field='ShipCountry' headerText='Ship Country' width=150></e-column>
                </e-columns>
                </ejs-grid>`
})

export class AppComponent implements OnInit {

    public data: object[];
    public toolbar: ToolbarItems[];
    @ViewChild('grid')
    public grid: GridComponent;
    public editSettings: EditSettingsModel;
    ngOnInit(): void {
        this.data = data;
        this.editSettings = { allowEditing: true, allowAdding: true, allowDeleting: true, mode: 'Normal' };
        this.toolbar = ['Add', 'Edit', 'Delete', 'Update', 'Cancel'];
    }
    load(args){
        this.grid.element.addEventListener('mousedown', (e: MouseEventArgs) => {
        if ((e.target as HTMLElement).classList.contains("e-rowcell")) {
        if (this.grid.isEdit)
            this.grid.endEdit();
            let index: number = parseInt((e.target as HTMLElement).getAttribute("Index"));
            this.grid.selectRow(index);
            this.grid.startEdit();
        };
        });
    }
}

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { GridModule, EditService, PageService, ToolbarService } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-grids';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';

/**
 * Module
 */
@NgModule({
    imports: [
        BrowserModule,
        GridModule
    ],
    declarations: [AppComponent],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent],
    providers: [EditService, PageService, ToolbarService]
})
export class AppModule { }

import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';
import { enableProdMode } from '@angular/core';
import { AppModule } from './app.module';

enableProdMode();
platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule);

Batch Editing

You can make a cell editable on a single click with Batch mode of editing in Grid, by using the editCell method.

Bind the mousedown event for Grid and in the event handler call the editCell method, based on the clicked target element.