How modify Yii2 pagination in GridView widget to show first and last pages?

Question

Default view of pagination is "1, 2, 3, ..., 10"

I need to transform it into "(first page), x, x, x, (current page), x, x, x, (last page)"

How can I do that?

Answer 1

<?= GridView::widget([
    'pager' => [
        'firstPageLabel' => 'First',
        'lastPageLabel'  => 'Last'
    ],
    ...
]) ?>

Answer 2

You need to specify $firstPageLabel and $lastPageLabel properties of LinkPager (they are false by default meaning these links are not shown) . You can pass it to GridView like that:

<?= GridView::widget([
    ...
    'pager' => [
        'firstPageLabel' => 'First',
        'lastPageLabel' => 'Last',
    ],
    ...
]) ?>

For styling there are two additional properties: $firstPageCssClass and $lastPageCssClass.

Note that you can apply this to LinkPager separately, without using GridView.