How to pass props to row in react-table

Question

I've been following https://blog.logrocket.com/complete-guide-building-smart-data-table-react/. To apply custom styling depending on cell value, I'm updating the column object like so:

return {
  Header: key,
  accessor: key,
  width: "150",
  sortType: "basic",
  Cell: ({cell: {value} }) => {
    if (value == "Error") {
      return <RedCell/>
    }
    ...
  }
}

Is it possible instead to apply custom styling to the row containing the cell? I guess a prop would have to be passed down to row, but am just not clear at all on how to do this.

Any pointers would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

For anyone stumbling upon this issue, this has been answered by the author of the react-table library here — https://spectrum.chat/react-table/general/v7-row-getrowprops-how-to-pass-custom-props-to-the-row~ff772376-0696-49d6-b259-36ef4e558821

In your Table component, you pass on any prop (say, rowProps) of your choice for rows —

<Table
        columns={columns}
        data={data}
        rowProps={row => ({
          onClick: () => alert(JSON.stringify(row.values)),
          style: {
            cursor: "pointer"
          }
        })}
      />

Then to actually use this —

function Table({ columns, data, rowProps = () => ({}) }) {
  // Use the state and functions returned from useTable to build your UI
  const { getTableProps, headerGroups, rows, prepareRow } = useTable({
    columns,
    data
  });

  // Render the UI for your table
  return (
    <table {...getTableProps()}>
      <thead>
        {headerGroups.map(headerGroup => (
          <tr {...headerGroup.getHeaderGroupProps()}>
            {headerGroup.headers.map(column => (
              <th {...column.getHeaderProps()}>{column.render("Header")}</th>
            ))}
          </tr>
        ))}
      </thead>
      <tbody>
        {rows.map(
          (row, i) =>
            prepareRow(row) || (
              <tr {...row.getRowProps(rowProps(row))}>
                {row.cells.map(cell => {
                  return (
                    <td {...cell.getCellProps()}>{cell.render("Cell")}</td>
                  );
                })}
              </tr>
            )
        )}
      </tbody>
    </table>
  );
}

Answer 2

Currently you are applying styling to your columns definitions.

In order to apply styling to an entire Row. (eg. make the entire row red if value == "Error"), I would do it in your table UI.

In your UI you are going to be calling prepareRow(row) and then using the row to render the cells.

maybe with : row.cells.map

At this point you could do something different based on the content of a cell row.cells[0]

maybe something like this:

                  {(row.cells[0].value !== "Error" && row.cells.map(cell =>
                    {
                        return (
                            <TableCell {...cell.getCellProps({ className: cell.column.className })}>
                                {cell.render('Cell')}
                            </TableCell>
                        );
                    })) ||  <RedRow />}