Focus on DataTable input field programatically

[fabiante]

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Hi!

My team and I have been working for quiet some time on how to programatically focus on an input field / cell in a data table.

In our application there are several use cases where we would need an API that would allow us to "simply" focus on a cell (or input in a cell if present) like this:

dataTable.focusXY(1, 3) // Focuses on the second row and the fourth column
dataTable.focus(1, "MyColumn") // Focuses on the second row and the column identified by "MyColumn"

Right now we are working an a monkey patch based on plain HTML handling but that sure doesn't feel production ready.

Is there such a feature that I may be missing?

[cagataycivici]

There is no such feature, if there is more demand on this we'll add it for sure.

[fabiante]

Thank you for your response! Our current solution is to use the ref mechanic of Vue upon mounting the component to manually create a data structure that allows for a quick access to the related input html elements of each cell.

[ggarzam]

Do you have an example of your current solution, i'm interested on this feature

[Dazaer]

This would be a nice feature...

[tugcekucukoglu]

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