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Terms, Icons, and Labels

Many classes have shortcut names used when creating (instantiating) a class with a configuration object. The shortcut name is referred to as an alias (or xtype if the class extends Ext.Component). The alias/xtype is listed next to the class name of applicable classes for quick reference.

Access Levels

Framework classes or their members may be specified as private or protected. Else, the class / member is public. Public, protected, and private are access descriptors used to convey how and when the class or class member should be used.

Member Types

Member Syntax

Below is an example class member that we can disect to show the syntax of a class member (the lookupComponent method as viewed from the Ext.button.Button class in this case).

lookupComponent ( item ) : Ext.Component
protected

Called when a raw config object is added to this container either during initialization of the items config, or when new items are added), or {@link #insert inserted.

This method converts the passed object into an instanced child component.

This may be overridden in subclasses when special processing needs to be applied to child creation.

Parameters

item :  Object

The config object being added.

Returns
Ext.Component

The component to be added.

Let's look at each part of the member row:

Member Flags

The API documentation uses a number of flags to further commnicate the class member's function and intent. The label may be represented by a text label, an abbreviation, or an icon.

Class Icons

- Indicates a framework class

- A singleton framework class. *See the singleton flag for more information

- A component-type framework class (any class within the Ext JS framework that extends Ext.Component)

- Indicates that the class, member, or guide is new in the currently viewed version

Member Icons

- Indicates a class member of type config

- Indicates a class member of type property

- Indicates a class member of type method

- Indicates a class member of type event

- Indicates a class member of type theme variable

- Indicates a class member of type theme mixin

- Indicates that the class, member, or guide is new in the currently viewed version

Class Member Quick-Nav Menu

Just below the class name on an API doc page is a row of buttons corresponding to the types of members owned by the current class. Each button shows a count of members by type (this count is updated as filters are applied). Clicking the button will navigate you to that member section. Hovering over the member-type button will reveal a popup menu of all members of that type for quick navigation.

Getter and Setter Methods

Getting and setter methods that correlate to a class config option will show up in the methods section as well as in the configs section of both the API doc and the member-type menus just beneath the config they work with. The getter and setter method documentation will be found in the config row for easy reference.

History Bar

Your page history is kept in localstorage and displayed (using the available real estate) just below the top title bar. By default, the only search results shown are the pages matching the product / version you're currently viewing. You can expand what is displayed by clicking on the button on the right-hand side of the history bar and choosing the "All" radio option. This will show all recent pages in the history bar for all products / versions.

Within the history config menu you will also see a listing of your recent page visits. The results are filtered by the "Current Product / Version" and "All" radio options. Clicking on the button will clear the history bar as well as the history kept in local storage.

If "All" is selected in the history config menu the checkbox option for "Show product details in the history bar" will be enabled. When checked, the product/version for each historic page will show alongside the page name in the history bar. Hovering the cursor over the page names in the history bar will also show the product/version as a tooltip.

Search and Filters

Both API docs and guides can be searched for using the search field at the top of the page.

On API doc pages there is also a filter input field that filters the member rows using the filter string. In addition to filtering by string you can filter the class members by access level, inheritance, and read only. This is done using the checkboxes at the top of the page.

The checkbox at the bottom of the API class navigation tree filters the class list to include or exclude private classes.

Clicking on an empty search field will show your last 10 searches for quick navigation.

API Doc Class Metadata

Each API doc page (with the exception of Javascript primitives pages) has a menu view of metadata relating to that class. This metadata view will have one or more of the following:

Expanding and Collapsing Examples and Class Members

Runnable examples (Fiddles) are expanded on a page by default. You can collapse and expand example code blocks individually using the arrow on the top-left of the code block. You can also toggle the collapse state of all examples using the toggle button on the top-right of the page. The toggle-all state will be remembered between page loads.

Class members are collapsed on a page by default. You can expand and collapse members using the arrow icon on the left of the member row or globally using the expand / collapse all toggle button top-right.

Desktop -vs- Mobile View

Viewing the docs on narrower screens or browsers will result in a view optimized for a smaller form factor. The primary differences between the desktop and "mobile" view are:

Viewing the Class Source

The class source can be viewed by clicking on the class name at the top of an API doc page. The source for class members can be viewed by clicking on the "view source" link on the right-hand side of the member row.

Ext JS 5.1.4


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Grids

Ext.grid.Panel is one of the centerpieces of Ext JS. It's an incredibly versatile component that provides an easy way to display, sort, group, and edit data.

Basic Grid Panel

Basic Grid Panel

Let's get started by creating a basic Ext.grid.Panel. Here's all you need to know to get a simple grid up and running:

Model and Store

Ext.grid.Panel is simply a component that displays data contained in a Ext.data.Store. Ext.data.Store can be thought of as a collection of records, or Ext.data.Model instances.

The benefit of this setup is separating our concerns. Ext.grid.Panel is only concerned with displaying the data, while Ext.data.Store takes care of fetching and saving the data using Ext.data.proxy.Proxy.

First, we need to define a Ext.data.Model. A model is just a collection of fields that represents a type of data. Let's define a model that represents a "User":

Ext.define('User', {
    extend: 'Ext.data.Model',
    fields: [ 'name', 'email', 'phone' ]
});

Next let's create a Ext.data.Store that contains several "User" instances.

var userStore = Ext.create('Ext.data.Store', {
    model: 'User',
    data: [
        { name: 'Lisa', email: '[email protected]', phone: '555-111-1224' },
        { name: 'Bart', email: '[email protected]', phone: '555-222-1234' },
        { name: 'Homer', email: '[email protected]', phone: '555-222-1244' },
        { name: 'Marge', email: '[email protected]', phone: '555-222-1254' }
    ]
});

For sake of ease, we configured Ext.data.Store to load its data inline. In a real world application, you would most likely configure the Ext.data.Store to use an Ext.data.proxy.Proxy to load data from the server.

Grid Panel

Now, we have a model, which defines our data structure. We have also loaded several model instances into an Ext.data.Store. Now we're ready to display the data using Ext.grid.Panel.

In this example, we configured the Grid with renderTo to immediately render the Grid into the HTML document.

In many situations, the grid will be a descendant of Ext.container.Viewport, which means rendering is already handled.

Ext.create('Ext.grid.Panel', {
    renderTo: document.body,
    store: userStore,
    width: 400,
    height: 200,
    title: 'Application Users',
    columns: [
        {
            text: 'Name',
            width: 100,
            sortable: false,
            hideable: false,
            dataIndex: 'name'
        },
        {
            text: 'Email Address',
            width: 150,
            dataIndex: 'email',
            hidden: true
        },
        {
            text: 'Phone Number',
            flex: 1,
            dataIndex: 'phone'
        }
    ]
});

And that's all there is to it.

We just created an Ext.grid.Panel that renders itself to the body element. We also told the Grid panel to get its data from the userStore that we previously created.

Finally, we defined the Grid panel's columns and gave them a dataIndex property. This dataIndex associates a field from our model to a column.

The "Name" column has a fixed width of "100px" and has sorting and hiding disabled. The "Email Address" column is hidden by default (it can be shown again by using the menu on any other column header). Finally, the "Phone Number" column flexes to fit the remainder of the Grid panel's total width.

For a larger example, see the Array Grid Example.

Renderers

You can use the renderer property of the column config to change the way in which data is displayed. A renderer is a function that modifies the underlying value and returns a new value for display. Some of the most common renderers are included in Ext.util.Format, but you can write your own as well:

columns: [
    {
        text: 'Birth Date',
        dataIndex: 'birthDate',
        // format the date using a renderer from the Ext.util.Format class
        renderer: Ext.util.Format.dateRenderer('m/d/Y')
    },
    {
        text: 'Email Address',
        dataIndex: 'email',
        // format the email address using a custom renderer
        renderer: function(value) {
            return Ext.String.format('<a href="mailto:{0}">{1}</a>', value, value);
        }
    }
]

See the Kitchen Sink's Array Grid for a live demo that uses custom renderers.

Grouping

Organizing the rows into groups is easy. First we specify a groupField property on our store:

Ext.create('Ext.data.Store', {
    model: 'Employee',
    data: ...,
    groupField: 'department'
});

Next, we configure a Grid with Ext.grid.feature.Grouping that will handle displaying the rows in groups:

Ext.create('Ext.grid.Panel', {
    ...
    features: [{ ftype: 'grouping' }]
});

See the Kitchen Sink's Grouping Grid Panel for a live example.

Selection Models

Grid panels can be used to simply display data. However, it is often necessary to interact with the Grid's data. All Grid panels have an Ext.selection.Model, which determines how data is selected. The two main types of Selection Model are Ext.selection.RowModel, where entire rows are selected, and Ext.selection.CellModel, where individual cells are selected.

Grid panels use Ext.selection.RowModel by default, but it's easy to switch to an Ext.selection.CellModel:

Ext.create('Ext.grid.Panel', {
    selType: 'cellmodel',
    store: ...
});

Using Ext.selection.CellModel changes a couple of things. Firstly, clicking on a cell now selects just that cell as opposed to the entire row. Secondly, the keyboard navigation will walk from cell to cell instead of row to row. Cell-based selection models are usually used in conjunction with editing.

Editing

Grid panel has built-in support for editing. Let's look at the two main editing modes - row editing and cell editing.

Cell Editing

Cell editing allows you to edit the data in a Grid panel one cell at a time. The first step in implementing cell editing is to configure an editor for each Ext.grid.column.Column in your Grid Panel that should be editable. This is done using the Ext.grid.column.Column#editor config. The simplest way is to specify just the xtype of the field you want to use as an editor:

Ext.create('Ext.grid.Panel', {
    ...
    columns: [
        {
            text: 'Email Address',
            dataIndex: 'email',
            editor: 'textfield'
       }
    ]
});

If you need more control over how the editor field behaves, the Ext.grid.column.Column#editor config can also take a config object for a Field. For example, if we are using a Ext.form.field.Text and we want to require a value:

columns: [
    text: 'Name',
    dataIndex: 'name',
    editor: {
        xtype: 'textfield',
        allowBlank: false
    }
[

You can use any class in the "Ext.form.field.*" package as an editor field. Lets suppose we want to edit a column that contains dates. We can use a Ext.form.field.Date editor:

columns: [
    {
        text: 'Birth Date',
        dataIndex: 'birthDate',
        editor: 'datefield'
    }
]

Any Ext.grid.column.Column in a Ext.grid.Panel that do not have a ] configured will not be editable.

Now that we've configured which columns we want to be editable, and the editor fields that will be used to edit the data, the next step is to specify a selection model. Let's use a Ext.selection.CellModel in our Ext.grid.Panel config:

Ext.create('Ext.grid.Panel', {
    ...
    selType: 'cellmodel'
});

Finally, to enable editing we need to configure the Ext.grid.Panel with a Ext.grid.plugin.CellEditing:

Ext.create('Ext.grid.Panel', {
    ...
    selType: 'cellmodel',
    plugins: [{
        ptype: 'cellediting ',
        clicksToEdit: 1
    }]
});

And that's all it takes to create an editable Grid using cell editing. See Cell Editing for a working example.

Row Editing

Row editing enables you to edit an entire row at a time, rather than editing cell by cell. Row editing works in exactly the same way as cell editing - all we need to do is change the plugin type to Ext.grid.plugin.RowEditing and set the selType to rowmodel.

Ext.create('Ext.grid.Panel', {
    ...
    selType: 'rowmodel',
    plugins: [{
        ptype: 'rowediting',
        clicksToEdit: 1
    }]
});

See Row Editing for a working example.

Paging

Sometimes your data set is too large to display all on one page. Ext.grid.Panel supports displaying individual pages from the dataset using a Ext.toolbar.Paging, which loads pages using previous/next buttons.

Store Setup

Before we can set up paging on a Ext.grid.Panel, we have to configure the Ext.data.Store to support paging. In the below example we add Ext.data.Store#pageSize to the Ext.data.Store, and we configure our Ext.data.reader.Reader with a Ext.data.reader.Reader#totalProperty:

Ext.create('Ext.data.Store', {
    model: 'User',
    autoLoad: true,
    pageSize: 4,
    proxy: {
        type: 'ajax',
        url : 'data/users.json',
        reader: {
            type: 'json',
            root: 'users',
            totalProperty: 'total'
        }
    }
});

The Ext.data.reader.Reader#totalProperty config tells Ext.data.reader.Json where to get the total number of results in the JSON response. This Ext.data.Store is configured to consume a JSON response that looks something like this:

{
    "success": true,
    "total": 12,
    "users": [
        { "name": "Lisa", "email": "[email protected]", "phone": "555-111-1224" },
        { "name": "Bart", "email": "[email protected]", "phone": "555-222-1234" },
        { "name": "Homer", "email": "[email protected]", "phone": "555-222-1244" },
        { "name": "Marge", "email": "[email protected]", "phone": "555-222-1254" }
    ]
}

Paging Toolbar

Now that we've set up our Ext.data.Store to support paging, all that's left is to configure a Ext.toolbar.Paging. You could put the Ext.toolbar.Paging anywhere in your application layout, but typically it is docked to the Ext.grid.Panel:

Ext.create('Ext.grid.Panel', {
    store: userStore,
    columns: ...,
    dockedItems: [{
        xtype: 'pagingtoolbar',
        store: userStore,   // same store GridPanel is using
        dock: 'bottom',
        displayInfo: true
    }]
});

See the Paging Grid for a working example.

Buffered Rendering

Grids enable buffered rendering of extremely large datasets as an alternative to using a paging toolbar. Your users can scroll through thousands of records without the performance penalties of renderering all the records on screen at once. The Grid should be bound to a Ext.data.BufferedStore with a pageSize specified.

Only enough rows are rendered to fill the visible area of the Grid with a little Ext.grid.Panel#cfg-leadingBufferZone overflow either side to allow scrolling. As scrolling proceeds, new rows are rendered in the direction of scroll, and rows are removed from the receding side of the table.

Grids use buffered rendering by default, so you no longer need to add the plugin to your Grid component.

Ext JS 5.1.4