DevExtreme jQuery/JS - Focused Row

The focused row feature allows you to display master-detail relationships and improve navigation through records.

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To allow users to focus rows, set the focusedRowEnabled option to true.

Users can control the focused row using the following mouse and keyboard commands:

You can specify the initially focused row using the focusedRowKey or focusedRowIndex option. The grid is scrolled down to it. If you also set the focusedColumnIndex option, a specific cell in this row is focused.

$(function() {
    $("#dataGridContainer").dxDataGrid({
        // ...
        focusedRowEnabled: true,
        focusedRowIndex: 0, // focus the first row
        // or
        // focusedRowKey: 100,
        focusedColumnIndex: 0 // focus the first cell
    });
});

<dx-data-grid ...
    [focusedRowEnabled]="true"
    [focusedRowIndex]="0" <!-- focus the first row -->
    [focusedColumnIndex]="0"> <!-- focus the first cell -->
</dx-data-grid>

import { DxDataGridModule } from "devextreme-angular";
// ...
export class AppComponent {
    // ...
}
@NgModule({
    imports: [
        // ...
        DxDataGridModule
    ],
    // ...
})

Change the same options using the option(optionName, optionValue) method to focus a row or cell programmatically. You can also use the navigateToRow(key) method to focus a row. This approach is more typical of jQuery and ASP.NET MVC Controls. With JavaScript frameworks, use property binding.

var dataGrid = $("#dataGridContainer").dxDataGrid("instance");
dataGrid.option("focusedRowKey", 100);
// or
dataGrid.navigateToRow(100);

The DataGrid raises events before and after a row or cell is focused. Use the onFocusedRowChanging/onFocusedRowChanged and onFocusedCellChanging/onFocusedCellChanged functions to handle these events. You can perform custom actions in these functions, for instance, customize keyboard navigation, as shown in the onFocusedCellChanging example.