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Row Spanning in JavaScript (ES5) Grid control

06 Jun 2023 / 4 minutes to read

The grid has option to span row cells. To achieve this, You need to define the rowSpan attribute to span cells in the QueryCellInfo event.

In the following demo, Davolio cell is spanned to two rows in the EmployeeName column.

Also Grid supports the spanning of rows and columns for same cells. Lunch Break cell is spanned to two rows and three columns in the 1:00 column.

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var grid = new ej.grids.Grid({
            dataSource: columnSpanData,
            queryCellInfo: QueryCellEvent,
            gridLines: 'Both',
            columns: [
{ field: 'EmployeeID', headerText: 'Employee ID', isPrimaryKey: true, textAlign: 'Right', width: 120 },
                { field: 'EmployeeName', headerText: 'Employee Name', width: 200 },
                { field: '9:00', headerText: '9.00 AM', width: 100 },
                { field: '9:30', headerText: '9.30 AM', width: 100 },
                { field: '10:00', headerText: '10.00 AM', width: 100 },
                { field: '10:30', headerText: '10.30 AM', width: 100 },
                { field: '11:00', headerText: '11.00 AM', width: 100 },
                { field: '11:30', headerText: '11.30 AM', width: 100 },
                { field: '12:00', headerText: '12.00 PM', width: 100 },
                { field: '12:30', headerText: '12.30 PM', width: 100 },
                { field: '1:00', headerText: '1.00 PM', width: 120 },
                { field: '1:30', headerText: '1.30 PM', width: 120 },
                { field: '2:00', headerText: '2.00 PM', width: 120 },
                { field: '2:30', headerText: '2.30 PM', width: 120 },
                { field: '3:00', headerText: '3.00 PM', width: 120 },
                { field: '3:30', headerText: '3.30 PM', width: 120 },
                { field: '4:00', headerText: '4.00 PM', width: 100 },
                { field: '4:30', headerText: '4.30 PM', width: 100 },
                { field: '5:00', headerText: '5.00 PM', width: 100 }
            ],
            width: 'auto',
            height: 300,
            allowTextWrap: true
});
grid.appendTo('#Grid');

function QueryCellEvent(args) {
    var data = args.data;
    switch (data.EmployeeID) {
        case 10001:
            if (args.column.field === '9:00' || args.column.field === '2:30' || args.column.field === '4:30') {
                args.colSpan = 2;
            } else if (args.column.field === '11:00') {
                args.colSpan = 3;
            } else if (args.column.field === 'EmployeeName') {
                args.rowSpan = 2;
            } else if (args.column.field === '1:00') {
                args.colSpan = 3;
                args.rowSpan = 2;
            }
            break;
        case 10002:
            if (args.column.field === '9:30' || args.column.field === '2:30' ||
                args.column.field === '4:30') {
                args.colSpan = 3;
            } else if (args.column.field === '11:00') {
                args.colSpan = 4;
            }
            break;
        case 10003:
            if (args.column.field === '9:00' || args.column.field === '11:30') {
                args.colSpan = 3;
            } else if (args.column.field === '10:30' || args.column.field === '3:30' ||
                args.column.field === '4:30' || args.column.field === '2:30') {
                args.colSpan = 2;
            }
            break;
        case 10004:
            if (args.column.field === '9:00') {
                args.colSpan = 3;
            } else if (args.column.field === '11:00') {
                args.colSpan = 4;
            } else if (args.column.field === '4:00' || args.column.field === '2:30') {
                args.colSpan = 2;
            }
            break;
        case 10005:
            if (args.column.field === '9:00') {
                args.colSpan = 4;
            } else if (args.column.field === '11:30') {
                args.colSpan = 3;
            } else if (args.column.field === '3:30' || args.column.field === '4:30' || args.column.field === '2:30') {
                args.colSpan = 2;
            }
            break;
        case 10006:
            if (args.column.field === '9:00' || args.column.field === '4:30' ||
                args.column.field === '2:30' || args.column.field === '3:30') {
                args.colSpan = 2;
            } else if (args.column.field === '10:00' || args.column.field === '11:30') {
                args.colSpan = 3;
            }
            break;
        case 10007:
            if (args.column.field === '9:00' || args.column.field === '3:00' || args.column.field === '10:30') {
                args.colSpan = 2;
            } else if (args.column.field === '11:30' || args.column.field === '4:00') {
                args.colSpan = 3;
            }
            break;
        case 10008:
            if (args.column.field === '9:00' || args.column.field === '10:30' || args.column.field === '2:30') {
                args.colSpan = 3;
            } else if (args.column.field === '4:00') {
                args.colSpan = 2;
            }
            break;
        case 10009:
            if (args.column.field === '9:00' || args.column.field === '11:30') {
                args.colSpan = 3;
            } else if (args.column.field === '4:30' || args.column.field === '2:30') {
                args.colSpan = 2;
            }
            break;
        case 100010:
            if (args.column.field === '9:00' || args.column.field === '2:30' ||
                args.column.field === '4:00' || args.column.field === '11:30') {
                args.colSpan = 3;
            } else if (args.column.field === '10:30') {
                args.colSpan = 2;
            }
            break;
    }
}
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</head>
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    <div id="container">
        <div id="Grid"></div>        
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