Handsontable
Handsontable is a JavaScript data grid component designed to bring a spreadsheet-like experience into web applications, allowing users to interact with data in a familiar, Excel-style interface. It enables developers to build data-rich applications where users can enter, edit, validate, and process data from multiple sources such as databases, APIs, Excel files, Google Sheets, or manual input. It supports advanced editing capabilities, including inline editing, copy and paste with Excel-compatible clipboard, undo and redo actions, and keyboard navigation that mirrors common spreadsheet tools. It provides extensive functionality for managing data, such as sorting, filtering, grouping, moving, hiding, and freezing rows and columns, along with customizable cell types, validation rules, and conditional formatting. Handsontable includes over 400 spreadsheet formulas through its HyperFormula engine, as well as features like comments, autocomplete, dropdowns, and built-in editors.
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Modern CSV
Modern CSV is a tabular file editor/viewer with advanced editing features and large file handling. It makes up for the weaknesses of spreadsheet programs in handling CSV files while incorporating the strengths of the best text editors. Its features include: multiple cell/row/column editing, fast load times, customizable keyboard shortcuts, data analysis, light and dark themes, regex find/replace, and multiple encoding and delimiter handling.
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CSVpad
CSVpad is a free, portable CSV (Comma-separated values) editor that supports Unicode and operates without installation. It enables users to manipulate columns and rows and offers the capability to export CSV files into HTML, XML, OpenDocument Spreadsheet (ODS), and Microsoft Excel 8.0 (XLS) formats. It includes undo and redo functions, enhancing editing flexibility. CSVpad is compatible with Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux operating systems.
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Webix Grid
Webix Grid is a standalone JavaScript DataGrid component (table/grid UI widget) that is optimized for high-performance, large-dataset scenarios, and is designed to be dropped into web applications where tabular data needs to be displayed, edited, filtered, sorted, etc.
Key positioning points:
Lightweight: you don’t have to bring in the full Webix UI library if you only need the grid.
Focused on “just the grid” use-case rather than a full UI framework.
Feature-rich, offering a wide set of capabilities for enterprise-style data apps:
- Virtual scrolling
- Frozen columns
- Inline editing
- Sorting
- Filtering
- Grouping
- Column resizing
- Column reordering
- Multi-line headers
- Row selection
- Cell selection
- Copy/paste
- Excel export
- PDF export
- CSV export
- Paging
- Validation
- Undo/redo
- Drag and drop
- Spanning cells
- Context menus
- Keyboard navigation
- Conditional formatting
- Column summaries
- Custom rendering
- Live updates
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