jQWidgets jqxGrid selectionmode 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 selectionmode property is used to set or get the mode of the selection. It is of type string and its by default value is singlerow.

The possible values of the property are as follows:

none: It is used to disable the selection.
singlerow: It is used for the entire row selection.
multiplerows: It is used to select a new row in each click. A click on a picked row deselects it.
multiplerowsextended: It is used to select multiple rows along with drag and drop feature.
singlecell: It is used to select single cell.
multiplecells: It is used to select a new cell in each click. A click on a picked cell deselects it.
multiplecellsextended: It is used to select multiple cells along with drag and drop feature.
multiplecellsadvanced: It is used to select multiple cells along with drag and drop feature. It is a very advanced cells picking mode.
checkbox: It is used to select multiple rows by means of a checkbox.

Syntax:

Set the selectionmode property.

$('#Selector').jqxGrid({ selectionmode: 'singlecell'});

Return the selectionmode property.

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

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 selectionmode 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 selectionmode 
            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, 
                selectionmode: 'multiplecells', 
                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 sm = $('#jqxg').jqxGrid('selectionmode'); 
                $('#log').text("Mode of selection: " + sm); 
            }); 
        }); 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html>