How to Enable Column Resizing and Drag-and-Drop in Flutter DataTable?

In this article, we will show you how to enable both column resizing and drag-and-drop in Flutter DataTable.

Initialize the SfDataGrid widget with all the required properties. Maintain the column width collection at the application level and use the SfDataGrid.onColumnResizeUpdate callback to update the column width for the corresponding column. To reorder the columns in the DataGrid, create an instance to hold the columns and assign it to the SfDataGrid.columns property, instead of directly assigning the list of GridColumn. When resizing, create a new GridColumn instance with the updated width value and replace the existing column in the list.

 @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      home: Scaffold(
        body: SfDataGrid(
          source: _employeeDataSource,
          allowColumnsResizing: true,
          onColumnResizeUpdate: (ColumnResizeUpdateDetails details) {
            setState(() {
              int index = getDataGridColumns.indexOf(
                  getDataGridColumns.firstWhere((element) =>
                      element.columnName == details.column.columnName));
              getDataGridColumns[index] = GridColumn(
                  columnName: details.column.columnName,
                  width: details.width,
                  label: details.column.label);
            });
            return true;
          },
          allowColumnsDragging: true,
          columns: getDataGridColumns,
          onColumnDragging: (DataGridColumnDragDetails details) {
            if (details.action == DataGridColumnDragAction.dropped &&
                details.to != null) {
              final GridColumn rearrangeColumn =
                  getDataGridColumns[details.from];
              getDataGridColumns.removeAt(details.from);
              getDataGridColumns.insert(details.to!, rearrangeColumn);
              _employeeDataSource.buildDataGridRows();
              _employeeDataSource.refreshDataGrid();
            }
            return true;
          },
        ),
      ),
    );
}

You can download this example on GitHub.

I hope you enjoyed learning how to enable column resizing and drag-and-drop in Flutter DataTable.
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