Data tables display sets of raw data. They usually appear in desktop enterprise products. They have more features than any other component in the Vue Material ecosystem. There are a lot of options that you can tweak to change and impact the table layout.

Simple tables

To create a basic table, with simple data and without any advanced options, you have a really simple markup to use.

There are some components that mimic the native table elements:

• md-table => table
• md-table-row => tr
• md-table-head => th
• md-table-cell => td

In pages that only have a table, you can put this table within a card. Fortunately Vue Material provides an option out of the box to add a table card without any effort:

Advanced tables

Vue Material have advanced tables that can handle with your data, sorting, selecting and manipulating it. You can pass a v-model with you data and tweak the table to suit your needs. Along with that, you should give to data table a custom template. This will allow the table to have its own markup and display all rows for you. This is really powerfull!

There are plenty of options for you to make your data table awesome, so carefully read this documentation, analyze the code examples with full attention and take a deeper look at the API section.

Let's start with a custom template feature:

When you provide a model along with a custom template, the data table will render the whole Array of options for you, without the need of a v-for, for example:

With a custom template, a model and some other properties, you can have automatic sort:

Sometimes the internal sort from Vue Material will not be enough for you. You can provide your own sort function:

With large datasets comes great responsibility... with your user. We know that Vue Material tables have a great layout, but we need to care about the usability of your screens. Fixed headers will make it easier to interact with the table by keeping all options always visible:

It's easy to integrate a search functionality on tables. You only need to change the model that you share with your table. You can also use the md-table-empty-state component to show an empty state when the search returns zero items:

Selection

When dealing with large data sets, you may want to have quick actions over our data, like whether to remove or make some bulk change. Tables have inner selection in two ways: Single and Multiple.

The single selection is really great to highlight a particular item. Maybe, by clicking on a table row, will show the details of the item. With single selections you'll have access to the selected item and the table will do the rest. You can use the primary and accent hue colors to give more appealing highlight colors:

Multiple selections great for bulk changes and you can use the alternate header to hold the options that you can call when there are options selected. Note that if you click on the checkbox or on the entire row, it will do the same action due to md-auto-select option. Really handy:

The table pagination will create the mechanism to show contents through pages.

Here's an example of a table controlled remotely through ajax.

:md-selected-value.sync="selectedValue"

:md-paginated-data.sync="paginatedData"

{
  mdCount: null,
  mdPage: null,
  mdData: []
}

[{...}, {...}, ...]