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Data Validation

The DataGrid allows you to validate user input. You can apply pre-defined validation rules or custom rules to individual columns.

In this demo, the following rules are used:

  • required
    Specifies that cells should not be empty.
  • pattern
    Specifies a pattern that cell values should match.
  • email
    Specifies that cell values match the Email pattern.
  • async
    Specifies custom validation parameters that are used to validate a value on the server.

For more information on these and other validation rules, refer to the following documentation section: Validation Rules.

Backend API
import React from 'react'; import DataGrid, { Column, Editing, Paging, RequiredRule, PatternRule, EmailRule, AsyncRule, } from 'devextreme-react/data-grid'; import { createStore } from 'devextreme-aspnet-data-nojquery'; const url = 'https://js.devexpress.com/Demos/Mvc/api/DataGridEmployeesValidation'; const emailValidationUrl = 'https://js.devexpress.com/Demos/Mvc/RemoteValidation/CheckUniqueEmailAddress'; const dataSource = createStore({ key: 'ID', loadUrl: url, insertUrl: url, updateUrl: url, deleteUrl: url, onBeforeSend: (method, ajaxOptions) => { ajaxOptions.xhrFields = { withCredentials: true }; }, }); // eslint-disable-next-line space-before-function-paren const asyncValidation = async (params) => { const response = await fetch(emailValidationUrl, { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json;', }, body: JSON.stringify({ id: params.data.ID, email: params.value, }), }); const result = await response.json(); return result; }; const App = () => ( <DataGrid dataSource={dataSource} showBorders={true} columnAutoWidth={true} repaintChangesOnly={true} > <Paging enabled={false} /> <Editing mode="batch" allowUpdating={true} allowAdding={true} /> <Column dataField="FirstName"> <RequiredRule /> </Column> <Column dataField="LastName"> <RequiredRule /> </Column> <Column dataField="Position"> <RequiredRule /> </Column> <Column dataField="Phone"> <RequiredRule /> <PatternRule message={'Your phone must have "(555) 555-5555" format!'} pattern={/^\(\d{3}\) \d{3}-\d{4}$/i} /> </Column> <Column dataField="Email"> <RequiredRule /> <EmailRule /> <AsyncRule message="Email address is not unique" validationCallback={asyncValidation} /> </Column> </DataGrid> ); export default App;
import React from 'react'; import DataGrid, { Column, Editing, Paging, RequiredRule, PatternRule, EmailRule, AsyncRule, } from 'devextreme-react/data-grid'; import { createStore } from 'devextreme-aspnet-data-nojquery'; const url = 'https://js.devexpress.com/Demos/Mvc/api/DataGridEmployeesValidation'; const emailValidationUrl = 'https://js.devexpress.com/Demos/Mvc/RemoteValidation/CheckUniqueEmailAddress'; const dataSource = createStore({ key: 'ID', loadUrl: url, insertUrl: url, updateUrl: url, deleteUrl: url, onBeforeSend: (method, ajaxOptions) => { ajaxOptions.xhrFields = { withCredentials: true }; }, }); // eslint-disable-next-line space-before-function-paren const asyncValidation = async (params) => { const response = await fetch(emailValidationUrl, { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json;', }, body: JSON.stringify({ id: params.data.ID, email: params.value, }), }); const result = await response.json(); return result; }; const App = () => ( <DataGrid dataSource={dataSource} showBorders={true} columnAutoWidth={true} repaintChangesOnly={true} > <Paging enabled={false} /> <Editing mode="batch" allowUpdating={true} allowAdding={true} /> <Column dataField="FirstName"> <RequiredRule /> </Column> <Column dataField="LastName"> <RequiredRule /> </Column> <Column dataField="Position"> <RequiredRule /> </Column> <Column dataField="Phone"> <RequiredRule /> <PatternRule message={'Your phone must have "(555) 555-5555" format!'} pattern={/^\(\d{3}\) \d{3}-\d{4}$/i} /> </Column> <Column dataField="Email"> <RequiredRule /> <EmailRule /> <AsyncRule message="Email address is not unique" validationCallback={asyncValidation} /> </Column> </DataGrid> ); export default App;
import React from 'react'; import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'; import App from './App.tsx'; ReactDOM.render( <App />, document.getElementById('app'), );
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import React from 'react'; import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'; import App from './App.js'; ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('app'));
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>DevExtreme Demo</title> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn3.devexpress.com/jslib/23.2.5/css/dx.light.css" /> <script src="https://unpkg.com/core-js@2.6.12/client/shim.min.js"></script> <script src="https://unpkg.com/systemjs@0.21.3/dist/system.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="config.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> System.import("./index.tsx"); </script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" /> </head> <body class="dx-viewport"> <div class="demo-container"> <div id="app"></div> </div> </body> </html>