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How to get the cell information in Javascript Spreadsheet?

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Description

This knowledge base explains to get the cell information in Spreadsheet.

 

Solution

It can be achieved by “getCell” public method. It returns the applied properties of a particular cell. The different types of cell properties available in spreadsheet are described below.

 

Cell Model Properties

Description

value

Defines the value of the cell which can be text or number.

formula

Defines the formula or expression of the cell.

index

Specifies the index of the cell.

format

Specifies the number format code to display value in specified number format.

hyperlink

Specifies the hyperlink of the cell.

wrap

Wraps the cell text to the next line, if the text width exceeds the column width.

isLocked

Specifies the cell is locked or not, for allow edit range in spreadsheet protect option.

validation

Specifies the validation of the cell.

colSpan

Specifies the column-wise cell merge count.

rowSpan

Specifies the row-wise cell merge count.

 

 

[HTML]

 

  <div id="spreadsheet"></div>

 

 

[TS]

 

//Initialize Spreadsheet component
    let spreadsheet: Spreadsheet = new Spreadsheet({
        sheets: [
            {
                name: 'Car Sales Report',
                ranges: [{ dataSource: (dataSource as any).defaultData }],  // you can refer this datasource in this link https://ej2.syncfusion.com/javascript/demos/spreadsheet/default/datasource.js
 
                rows: [
                    {
                        index: 30,
                        cells: [
                            { index: 4, value: 'Total Amount:', style: { fontWeight: 'bold', textAlign: 'right' } },
                            { formula: '=SUM(F2:F30)', style: { fontWeight: 'bold' } },
                        ]
                    }],
                columns: [
                    { width: 180 }, { width: 130 }, { width: 130 }, { width: 180 },
                    { width: 130 }, { width: 120 }
                ]
            }],
        created: (): void => {
         spreadsheet.cellFormat({ fontWeight: 'bold', textAlign: 'center', verticalAlign: 'middle' }, 'A1:F1');
            spreadsheet.numberFormat('$#,##0.00', 'F2:F31');
            spreadsheet.updateCell({ formula: '=PERCENTAGE(F1,F2)' }, 'F12');
        },
        select: (args: SelectEventArgs) => {
            let range: number[] = getRangeIndexes(args.range);  // to get the range of indexes
            let cell: CellModel = getCell(range[0], range[1], spreadsheet.getActiveSheet()); // to get the cell information in the selected cell
            console.log(cell);
        }

 

Demo Sample: https://stackblitz.com/edit/hbmtxq?file=index.ts

 

 Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed learning about how to get the cell information in Javascript Spreadsheet?

You can refer to our JavaScript Spreadsheet feature tour page to know about its other groundbreaking feature representations and documentation, and how to quickly get started for configuration specifications. You can also explore our JavaScript Spreadsheet example to understand how to create and manipulate data in the JavaScript Spreadsheet. 

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