jQWidgets jqxGrid columnsmenu Property

Last Updated : 29 Mar, 2023

jQWidgets is a JavaScript framework for making web-based applications for PC and mobile devices. It is a very powerful, optimized, platform-independent, and widely supported framework. The jqxGrid is used to illustrate a jQuery widget that shows data in tabular form. Moreover, it renders full support for connecting with data, as well as paging, grouping, sorting, filtering and editing.

The columnsmenu property is used to enable or disable the dropdown menu of the columns in the displayed jqxGrid. It is of type Boolean and it’s by default value is true.

Syntax:

Set the columnsmenu property:

$('#Selector').jqxGrid({ columnsmenu: false});

Return the columnsmenu property:

var columnsmenu = $('#Selector').jqxGrid('columnsmenu');

Linked Files: Download jQWidgets from the given link. In the HTML file, locate the script files in the downloaded folder.

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css” type=”text/css” />
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”scripts/jquery-1.11.1.min.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxcore.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxdata.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxbuttons.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxscrollbar.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxmenu.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxgrid.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxgrid.selection.js”></script>

The below example illustrates the jqxGrid columnsmenu property in jQWidgets.

Example:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  
<head> 
    <link rel="stylesheet" 
          href="jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css" 
          type="text/css" /> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="scripts/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"> 
      </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxcore.js"> 
      </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxdata.js"> 
      </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxbuttons.js"> 
      </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxscrollbar.js"> 
      </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxmenu.js"> 
      </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxgrid.js"> 
      </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxgrid.selection.js"> 
      </script> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <center> 
        <h1 style="color: green"> 
            GeeksforGeeks 
        </h1> 
  
        <h3>jQWidgets jqxGrid columnsmenu 
            property 
        </h3> 
        <br /> 
  
        <div id="jqxg"></div> 
  
        <div> 
            <input type="button" id="jqxBtn" 
                   style="margin-top: 25px" 
                   value="Click here" /> 
        </div> 
  
        <div id="log"></div> 
    </center> 
  
    <script type="text/javascript"> 
        $(document).ready(function () { 
            var d = new Array(); 
            var subjectNames = 
                ["C++", "Scala", "Java", 
                 "C", "R", "JavaScript"]; 
  
            var pageNumber = 
                ["7", "8", "12", "11", "10", "19"]; 
  
            for (var j = 0; j < 50; j++) { 
                var r = {}; 
                r["subjectnames"] = 
                    subjectNames[(Math.floor( 
                        Math.random() * subjectNames.length)) 
                    ]; 
  
                r["pagenumber"] = 
                    pageNumber[(Math.floor( 
                        Math.random() * pageNumber.length)) 
                    ]; 
                d[j] = r; 
  
            } 
            var src = { 
                localdata: d, 
                datatype: "array", 
            }; 
            var data_Adapter = new $.jqx.dataAdapter(src); 
            $("#jqxg").jqxGrid({ 
                source: data_Adapter, 
                sortable: true, 
                columnsmenu: false, 
                theme: 'energyblue', 
                height: "260px", 
                width: "240px", 
                columns: [ 
                    { 
                        text: "Subject Name", 
                        datafield: "subjectnames", 
                        width: "120px", 
                    }, 
                    { 
                        text: "Page No.", 
                        datafield: "pagenumber", 
                        width: "120px", 
                    }, 
                ], 
            }); 
  
            $("#jqxBtn").jqxButton({ 
                width: "180px", 
                height: "30px", 
            }); 
            $("#jqxBtn").on("click", function () { 
                var cm = $('#jqxg').jqxGrid('columnsmenu'); 
                $('#log').text("Columns menu is visible: " + cm); 
            }); 
        }); 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html>