Row selection

Prop enableRowSelection — engine behaviour, default false.

Guide

When to use it

Let users select whole rows with checkboxes — for bulk actions (delete, export, assign) on the chosen records.

How it works

Renders a checkbox column (header select-all + per-row). Pair with showSelectionInfo for a selected-count chip and Clear.

Gotchas

• This is row selection (checkboxes), separate from cell/range selection (enableCellSelection) — you can run both.
• Selection targets rows by id, so pass getRowId.

Live example

Example source

import React from 'react'
import { BstTableMui } from '@bloomskill/table-mui'
import type { BstTableColumn } from '@bloomskill/table-engine'
import '@bloomskill/table-engine/styles.css'
type Row = { id: string; name: string; team: string; role: string; score: number }
const seed: Row[] = [
  { id: '1', name: 'Ada Lovelace',    team: 'Platform', role: 'Engineer',  score: 92 },
  { id: '2', name: 'Alan Turing',     team: 'Research', role: 'Scientist', score: 88 },
  { id: '3', name: 'Grace Hopper',    team: 'Platform', role: 'Engineer',  score: 95 },
  { id: '4', name: 'Katherine J.',    team: 'Research', role: 'Analyst',   score: 90 },
  { id: '5', name: 'Edsger Dijkstra', team: 'Platform', role: 'Architect', score: 84 },
]
const columns: BstTableColumn<Row>[] = [
  { id: 'name', accessorKey: 'name', header: 'Name' },
  { id: 'team', accessorKey: 'team', header: 'Team' },
  { id: 'role', accessorKey: 'role', header: 'Role' },
  { id: 'score', accessorKey: 'score', header: 'Score', sortFn: 'basic' },
]
export default function App() {
  return (
    <BstTableMui data={seed} columns={columns} getRowId={(r) => r.id}
      enableRowSelection showSelectionInfo
      initialState={{ rowSelection: { '1': true, '3': true } }} />
  )
}

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Overview

Layer	enable* (engine, resolved in useBstTable)
Type	boolean
Default	false
Maps to	v9 enableRowSelection
Status	✅ done (Phase 3)
Since	v0.5.0
Settings sheet	Selection & clipboard

Row selection — a leading checkbox column with header "select all" (indeterminate when partial) and per-row checkboxes. Maps to v9 enableRowSelection; state lives in table.state.rowSelection, keyed by getRowId. Read it via table.getSelectedRowModel. Default: false (opt-in).

Enable it

<BstTableMui
  data={rows}
  columns={columns}
  enableRowSelection
/>

Swap BstTableMui for BstTableShadcn (and the CSS import) for the shadcn skin — same props.

Options

Option	Notes
getRowId	selection state is keyed by row id; without it selection breaks on re-sort

Behavior & interactions

• Read the selection with table.getSelectedRowModel().