Freeze pane in Angular Spreadsheet component
27 Apr 20243 minutes to read
Freeze Panes helps you to keep particular rows or columns visible when scrolling the sheet content in the spreadsheet. You can specify the number of frozen rows and columns using the frozenRows
and frozenColumns
properties inside the Sheet
property.
Apply freezepanes on UI
User Interface:
In the active spreadsheet, click the cell where you want to create freeze panes. Freeze panes can be done in any of the following ways:
- Select the View tab in the Ribbon toolbar and choose the
Freeze Panes
item. - Use the
freezePanes
method programmatically.
FrozenRows
It allows you to keep a certain number of rows visible while scrolling vertically through the rest of the worksheet.
User Interface:
In the active spreadsheet, select the cell where you want to create frozen rows. Frozen rows can be done in any one of the following ways:
- Select the View tab in the Ribbon toolbar and choose the
Freeze Rows
item. - You can specify the number of frozen rows using the
frozenRows
property inside theSheet
property.
FrozenColumns
It allows you to keep a certain number of columns visible while scrolling horizontally through the rest of the worksheet.
User Interface:
In the active spreadsheet, select the cell where you want to create frozen columns. Frozen columns can be done in any one of the following ways:
- Select the View tab in the Ribbon toolbar and choose the
Freeze Columns
item. - You can specify the number of frozen columns using the
frozenColumns
property inside theSheet
property.
In this demo, the frozenColumns is set as ‘2’, and the frozenRows is set as ‘2’. Hence, the two columns on the left and the top two rows are frozen.
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core'
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser'
import { SpreadsheetAllModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-spreadsheet'
import { Component, OnInit,ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
import { SpreadsheetComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-spreadsheet';
import { tradeData } from './datasource';
@Component({
imports: [
SpreadsheetAllModule
],
standalone: true,
selector: 'app-container',
template: "<ejs-spreadsheet #spreadsheet> <e-sheets> <e-sheet [frozenRows]=2 [frozenColumns]=2> <e-ranges> <e-range [dataSource]='tradeData'></e-range></e-ranges><e-columns><e-column [width]=100></e-column><e-column [width]=120></e-column><e-column [width]=96></e-column></e-columns></e-sheet></e-sheets></ejs-spreadsheet>"
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
public tradeData?: object[];
@ViewChild('spreadsheet') public spreadsheetObj?: SpreadsheetComponent;
ngOnInit(): void {
this.tradeData = tradeData;
}
}
import { bootstrapApplication } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import 'zone.js';
bootstrapApplication(AppComponent).catch((err) => console.error(err));
Limitations
Here, we have listed out the limitations with Freeze Panes feature.
- Merging the cells between freeze and unfreeze area.
- If images and charts are added inside the freeze area cells, their portion in the unfreeze area will not move when scrolling.
Note
You can refer to our Angular Spreadsheet feature tour page for its groundbreaking feature representations. You can also explore our Angular Spreadsheet example to knows how to present and manipulate data.