How to get the currently selected cell

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#1

Hi,

I can’t figure this out from the documentation, but I want to get a reference to the currently selected cell. Seems like it should be simple enough.

According to the docs…

grid.cells() // no args

and

grid.cellById() // no args

should both return the currently selected cell, but both infact produce errors.

So how should I do it?

I thought I could use…

var cellIndex = grid.getSelectedCellIndex();
var rowId = grid.getSelectedRowId();

but now I see no way to use the cellIndex and rowId to get the selected cell…

Can someone help?

Paul

#2

Hello Paul,

Let’s say your DHTMLX grid object is labeled as myGrid

To reference the index of the selected cell, you’ll need to use an event and a function:

//Text colored Green is user chosen Javascript.
//Text colored Bold Black is DHTMLX API Javascript object syntax

//function to display the grid cell index

function showIndex (id, celInd) { alert(id + ", " + celInd); }

//event function to call showIndex onRowSelect

myGrid.attachEvent( “onRowSelect”, showIndex );

Selecting a row will display the index of the cell: (row, cell)