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Angular Data Grid Column Pinning

Column pinning

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Freeze Angular Data Grid columns to the start or end edge so they stay visible while the rest of the grid scrolls horizontally.

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Keep an identifier or an actions column in view while users scroll a wide grid sideways. Pinning freezes columns against the start or end edge with sticky positioning; everything else scrolls between them.

Column pinning

Freeze columns against the start or end edge with [columnPinning]="{ start, end }" — they stay put while the rest of the grid scrolls horizontally. Pass [columnPinning]="true" on its own to enable the feature and pin later through grid.table.setColumnPinning(...). When a column is pinned to the start and selection is on, the checkbox column travels with it. The last start-pinned and first end-pinned column cast a shadow over the scrolling content.

The regions are logical, not physical: start is the left edge in LTR and the right edge in RTL (the sticky offsets use inset-inline-start/inset-inline-end). Pinning moves the column to its edge — the rendered order is always start-pinned, center, end-pinned.

1 Alice Smith [email protected] Poland
2 Bob Jones [email protected] Germany
3 Carol Brown [email protected] France
4 Dave Taylor [email protected] Spain
5 Eve Wilson [email protected] Italy
6 Frank Davies [email protected] Poland
7 Grace Evans [email protected] Germany
8 Heidi Thomas [email protected] France
9 Ivan Smith [email protected] Spain
10 Judy Jones [email protected] Italy
1–10 of 1000
ts
import { Component } from '@angular/core'
import { DataGridCellDirective, DataGridComponent } from '@coreui/angular-data-grid'
import type { DataGridColumn, DataGridItem } from '@coreui/angular-data-grid'

const firstNames = ['Alice', 'Bob', 'Carol', 'Dave', 'Eve', 'Frank', 'Grace', 'Heidi', 'Ivan', 'Judy']
const lastNames = ['Smith', 'Jones', 'Brown', 'Taylor', 'Wilson', 'Davies', 'Evans', 'Thomas']
const countries = ['Poland', 'Germany', 'France', 'Spain', 'Italy']

@Component({
  selector: 'docs-data-grid-pinning-example',
  imports: [DataGridCellDirective, DataGridComponent],
  template: `
    <c-data-grid
      [columns]="columns"
      [items]="items"
      [itemKey]="itemKey"
      [columnPinning]="{ start: ['id'], end: ['actions'] }"
      [rowSelection]="true"
      [pagination]="{ pageSize: 10 }"
    >
      <ng-template cDataGridCell="actions" let-item>
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-sm btn-outline-primary" (click)="edit(item)">Edit</button>
      </ng-template>
    </c-data-grid>
  `
})
export class DataGridPinningExample {
  readonly columns: DataGridColumn[] = [
    { key: 'id', label: '#', width: 80 },
    { key: 'firstName', label: 'First name', width: 160 },
    { key: 'lastName', label: 'Last name', width: 160 },
    { key: 'email', label: 'Email', width: 260 },
    { key: 'country', label: 'Country', width: 200 },
    {
 key: 'actions', label: '', sortable: false, width: 120
}
  ]
readonly items: DataGridItem[] = Array.from({ length: 1000 }, (_, i) => ({
    id: i + 1,
    firstName: firstNames[i % firstNames.length],
    lastName: lastNames[i % lastNames.length],
    email: `${firstNames[i % firstNames.length].toLowerCase()}${i}@example.com`,
    country: countries[i % countries.length]
  }))
readonly itemKey = (item: DataGridItem) => String(item.id)

  edit(item: DataGridItem) {
    alert(`Edit ${item.firstName} (#${item.id})`)
  }
}

Options

OptionTypeDefaultDescription
columnPinningboolean | { start?: string[], end?: string[] }falseFreezes columns (by key) to the start/end edge. true enables the feature with no initial pins.

Pinning emits the pinningChange output with the grid’s { columnPinning } state. Reordering via column ordering never crosses a pinning boundary.