Description

A spreadsheet Spreadsheet table is a type of data tableData Table where users can add and edit numeric data on a within the grid.

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Usage & Behaviour

General Guidelines

Structure

An extended rows table is similar to a standard Data Table.

• The table contains a grid of rows and columns.

• The table may contain:

  • Header a header row.

  • Header a header column.

  • Total a total row.

• If the table is higher than its container, a scroll bar Scrollbar will appear. The scroll bar scrollbar will not affect the header and or title rows, if existswhere they exist.

Content

• Numbers inside cell cells will be aligned to the right.

States

State	Example	Comments
Normal (Enabled)Regular
MouseoverHover
Selected	In Focus
Disabled	Image Added
No Data	Image Added
Error	Image Added	See Field Validation.
Focused (edit mode)		Only one cell can be in focus at any time	Disabled	Image Removed	No Data	Image Removed	Error	Image Removed	See Field Validation.

Interaction

• Clicking a cell will:

  • Selects select the cell.

  • Deselects deselect all other cells.

  • Sets change the focus to the cellcell to an input field, allowing the user to edit it.

  • If the cell is already in focus, clicking the cell will place the insertion point on cursor location.

• Hitting the Enter key when a cell is selected or in focusfocused will:

  • Saves save the text in the cell (if it exists)Switches .

  • remove the input field, returning the cell from edit mode to the selected state.

• Hitting the Tab key / or the arrow keys when a cell is selected or in focusfocused will:

  • Saves save the text in the cell (if it exists).

  • Deselects deselect the cell.

  • Moves move the focus to the next relevant next cell, while skipping disabled cells.

• Dragging the cursor over a group of cells selects that group of cells.

• A focused cell in focus will have a special handle at in the bottom-right corner (see states above)

  Mouseover

  . See States above.

  • Hovering over the handle will switch the cursor to a cross.

  • Dragging the handle will copy the content of the cell to the target cells.

• The user can cut, copy, and paste cell content using Ctrl / Cmd + X, C and V respectably respectively.

Validations and Errors

Errors may include:

• Typing

  typing long text in a cell.

• Typing

  typing invalid data in a cell.

• Deleting

  deleting mandatory cells.

For more information please refer to the Field Validation page.

Best Practices

Use

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• when the spreadsheet table when it supports another set of data, for example, such as a graph.

Accessibility compliance

Unless otherwise specified, see our general compliance information in Fundamentals - Accessibility.

Design

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