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Frozen Rows and Columns in JavaScript (ES5) Tree Grid control

06 Jun 2023 / 4 minutes to read

Frozen rows and columns

Frozen rows and columns provides an option to make rows and columns always visible in the top and left side of the tree grid while scrolling.

To use frozen rows and columns support, inject the Freeze module in the tree grid.

In this demo, the frozenColumns is set as ‘2’ and the frozenRows is set as ‘3’. Hence, the left two columns and top three rows are frozen.

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ej.treegrid.TreeGrid.Inject(ej.treegrid.Freeze);
var treegrid = new ej.treegrid.TreeGrid({
        dataSource: sampleData,
        height: 317,
        allowSelection: false,
        frozenRows: 3,
        frozenColumns: 2,
        treeColumnIndex: 1,
        childMapping: 'subtasks',
        columns: [
                { field: 'taskID', headerText: 'Task ID', textAlign: 'Right', width: 100 },
                { field: 'taskName', headerText: 'Task Name', width: 230 },
                { field: 'startDate', headerText: 'Start Date', width: 120, textAlign: 'Right',
                    type: 'date', format: { type: 'dateTime', format: 'dd/MM/yyyy' } },
                { field: 'endDate', headerText: 'End Date', width: 120, textAlign: 'Right',
                    type: 'date', format: { type: 'dateTime', format: 'dd/MM/yyyy' } },
                { field: 'duration', headerText: 'Duration', textAlign: 'Right', width: 110 },
                { field: 'progress', headerText: 'Progress', textAlign: 'Right', width: 120 },
                { field: 'priority', headerText: 'Priority', textAlign: 'Left', width: 120 },
                { field: 'approved', headerText: 'Approved', width: 110, textAlign: 'Left' }
    ]
    });
    treegrid.appendTo('#TreeGrid');
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<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
            
    <title>EJ2 TreeGrid</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript TreeGrid Control">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-grids/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-dropdowns/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-lists/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-calendars/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-treegrid/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
    
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="es5-datasource.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
        
    <div id="container">
        <div id="TreeGrid"></div>
    </div>


<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
    ele.style.visibility = "visible";
 }   
        </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>

Freeze particular columns

You can use isFrozen property to freeze selected columns in tree grid.

In this demo, the columns with field name taskName and startDate is frozen using the isFrozen property.

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ej.treegrid.TreeGrid.Inject(ej.treegrid.Freeze);
var treegrid = new ej.treegrid.TreeGrid({
        dataSource: sampleData,
        height: 317,
        allowSelection: false,
        childMapping: 'subtasks',
        columns: [
                { field: 'taskID', headerText: 'Task ID', textAlign: 'Right', width: 90 },
                { field: 'taskName', headerText: 'Task Name', width: 230, isFrozen: true },
                { field: 'startDate', headerText: 'Start Date', isFrozen: true, width: 120, textAlign: 'Right',
                    type: 'date', format: { type: 'dateTime', format: 'dd/MM/yyyy' } },
                { field: 'endDate', headerText: 'End Date', width: 150, textAlign: 'Right',
                    type: 'date', format: { type: 'dateTime', format: 'dd/MM/yyyy' } },
                { field: 'duration', headerText: 'Duration', textAlign: 'Right', width: 110 },
                { field: 'progress', headerText: 'Progress', textAlign: 'Right', width: 120 },
                { field: 'priority', headerText: 'Priority', textAlign: 'Left', width: 120 },
                { field: 'approved', headerText: 'Approved', width: 110, textAlign: 'Left' }
    ]
    });
    treegrid.appendTo('#TreeGrid');
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<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
            
    <title>EJ2 TreeGrid</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript TreeGrid Control">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-grids/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-dropdowns/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-lists/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-calendars/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-treegrid/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
    
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="es5-datasource.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
        
    <div id="container">
        <div id="TreeGrid"></div>
    </div>


<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
    ele.style.visibility = "visible";
 }   
        </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>

Freeze direction

You can freeze the tree grid columns on the left or right side by using the column.freeze property and the remaining columns will be movable. The tree grid will automatically move the columns to the left or right position based on the column.freeze value.

Types of the column.freeze directions:

  • Left: Allows you to freeze the columns at the left.
  • Right: Allows you to freeze the columns at the right.

In this demo, the Task Name column is frozen at the left and the Priority column is frozen at the right side of the content table.

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ej.treegrid.TreeGrid.Inject(ej.treegrid.Freeze);
var treegrid = new ej.treegrid.TreeGrid({
    dataSource: sampleData,
    height: 317,
    treeColumnIndex: 1,
    childMapping: 'subtasks',
    allowSelection: false,
    columns: [
        { field: 'taskID', headerText: 'Task ID', textAlign: 'Right', width: 90 },
        { field: 'taskName', headerText: 'Task Name', width: 230, freeze: 'Left' },
        {
            field: 'startDate', headerText: 'Start Date', width: 120, textAlign: 'Right',
            type: 'date', format: { type: 'dateTime', format: 'dd/MM/yyyy' }
        },
        {
            field: 'endDate', headerText: 'End Date', width: 150, textAlign: 'Right',
            type: 'date', format: { type: 'dateTime', format: 'dd/MM/yyyy' }
        },
        { field: 'duration', headerText: 'Duration', textAlign: 'Right', width: 110 },
        { field: 'progress', headerText: 'Progress', textAlign: 'Right', width: 120 },
        { field: 'priority', headerText: 'Priority', textAlign: 'Left', freeze: 'Right', width: 120 },
        { field: 'approved', headerText: 'Approved', width: 110, textAlign: 'Left' }
    ]
    });
    treegrid.appendTo('#TreeGrid');
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<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
            
    <title>EJ2 TreeGrid</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript TreeGrid Control">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-grids/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-dropdowns/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-lists/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-calendars/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-treegrid/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
    
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="es5-datasource.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
        
    <div id="container">
        <div id="TreeGrid"></div>
    </div>


<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
    ele.style.visibility = "visible";
 }   
        </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>

Limitations of frozen tree grid

The following features are not supported in frozen rows and columns:

  • Row Template
  • Detail Template
  • Cell Editing

Freeze Direction feature has the below limitations, along with the above mentioned limitations.

  • Infinite scroll cache mode
  • Freeze direction in the stacked header is not compatible with column reordering.

You can refer to our JavaScript Tree Grid feature tour page for its groundbreaking feature representations. You can also explore our JavaScript tree grid example JavaScript Tree Grid example to knows how to present and manipulate data.

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