Data Grid - Filtering

Easily filter your rows based on one or several criteria.

The filters can be modified through the grid interface in several ways:

• By opening the column menu and clicking the Filter menu item.
• By clicking the Filters button in the grid toolbar (if enabled).

Each column type has its own filter operators. The demo below lets you explore all the operators for each built-in column type.

See the dedicated section to learn how to create your own custom filter operator.

Single and multi-filtering

⚠️ The DataGrid can only filter the rows according to one criterion at the time.

To use multi-filtering, you need to upgrade to the Pro plan

Multi-filtering

The following demo lets you filter the rows according to several criteria at the same time.

Pass filters to the grid

Structure of the model

The full typing details can be found on the GridFilterModel API page.

The filter model is composed of a list of items and a linkOperator:

The items

A filter item represents a filtering rule and is composed of several elements:

• filterItem.columnField: the field on which we want to apply the rule.
• filterItem.value: the value to look for.
• filterItem.operatorValue: name of the operator method to use (e.g. contains), matches the value key of the operator object.
• filterItem.id (): only useful when multiple filters are used.

Note: Some operators do not need any value (for instance the isEmpty operator of the string column).

The linkOperator

The linkOperator tells the grid if a row should satisfy all (AND) filter items or at least one (OR) in order to be considered valid.

// Example 1: get rows with rating > 4 OR isAdmin = true
const filterModel: GridFilterModel = {
  items: [
    { id: 1, columnField: 'rating', operatorValue: '>', value: '4' },
    { id: 2, columnField: 'isAdmin', operatorValue: 'is', value: 'true' },
  ],
  linkOperator: GridLinkOperator.Or,
};

// Example 2: get rows with rating > 4 AND isAdmin = true
const filterModel: GridFilterModel = {
  items: [
    { id: 1, columnField: 'rating', operatorValue: '>', value: '4' },
    { id: 2, columnField: 'isAdmin', operatorValue: 'is', value: 'true' },
  ],
  linkOperator: GridLinkOperator.And,
};

If no linkOperator is provided, the grid will use GridLinkOperator.Or by default.

Initialize the filters

To initialize the filters without controlling them, provide the model to the initialState prop.

<DataGrid
  initialState={{
    filter: {
      filterModel: {
        items: [{ columnField: 'rating', operatorValue: '>', value: '2.5' }],
      },
    },
  }}
/>

Controlled filters

Use the filterModel prop to control the filter applied on the rows.

You can use the onFilterModelChange prop to listen to changes to the filters and update the prop accordingly.

<DataGrid
  filterModel={{
    items: [{ columnField: 'rating', operatorValue: '>', value: '2.5' }],
  }}
/>

Disable the filters

For all columns

Filters are enabled by default, but you can easily disable this feature by setting the disableColumnFilter prop.

<DataGrid disableColumnFilter />

For some columns

To disable the filter of a single column, set the filterable property in GridColDef to false.

In the example below, the rating column can not be filtered.

<DataGrid columns={[...columns, { field: 'rating', filterable: false }]} />

Customize the operators

The full typing details can be found on the GridFilterOperator api page.

An operator determines if a cell value should be considered as a valid filtered value. The candidate value used by the operator is the one corresponding to the field attribute or the value returned by the valueGetter of the GridColDef.

Each column type comes with a default array of operators. You can get them by importing the following functions:

You can find more information about the supported column types in the columns section.

Create a custom operator

If the built-in filter operators are not enough, creating a custom operator is an option. A custom operator is defined by creating a GridFilterOperator object. This object has to be added to the filterOperators attribute of the GridColDef.

The main part of an operator is the getApplyFilterFn function. When applying the filters, the grid will call this function with the filter item and the column on which the item must be applied. This function must return another function that takes the cell value as an input and return true if it satisfies the operator condition.

const operator: GridFilterOperator = {
  label: 'From',
  value: 'from',
  getApplyFilterFn: (filterItem: GridFilterItem, column: GridColDef) => {
    if (!filterItem.columnField || !filterItem.value || !filterItem.operatorValue) {
      return null;
    }

    return (params: GridCellParams): boolean => {
      return Number(params.value) >= Number(filterItem.value);
    };
  },
  InputComponent: RatingInputValue,
  InputComponentProps: { type: 'number' },
};

Note: The valueFormatter is only used for rendering purposes.

Note: If the column has a valueGetter, then params.value will be the resolved value.

In the demo below, you can see how to create a completely new operator for the Rating column.

Wrap built-in operators

You can create custom operators that re-use the logic of the built-in ones.

In the demo below, the selected rows are always visible even when they don't match the filtering rules.

Multiple values operator

You can create a custom operator which accepts multiple values. To do this, provide an array of values to the value property of the filterItem. The valueParser of the GridColDef will be applied to each item of the array.

The filtering function getApplyFilterFn must be adapted to handle filterItem.value as an array. Below is an example for a "between" operator, applied on the "Quantity" column.

{
  label: 'Between',
  value: 'between',
  getApplyFilterFn: (filterItem: GridFilterItem) => {
    if (!Array.isArray(filterItem.value) || filterItem.value.length !== 2) {
      return null;
    }
    if (filterItem.value[0] == null || filterItem.value[1] == null) {
      return null;
    }
    return ({ value }): boolean => {
      return value != null && filterItem.value[0] <= value && value <= filterItem.value[1];
    };
  },
  InputComponent: InputNumberInterval,
}

Remove an operator

To remove built-in operators, import the method to generate them and filter the output to fit your needs.

// Only keep '>' and '<' default operators
const filterOperators = getGridNumericOperators().filter(
  (operator) => operator.value === '>' || operator.value === '<',
);

In the demo below, the rating column only has the < and > operators.

Custom input component

The value used by the operator to look for has to be entered by the user. On most column types, a text field is used. However, a custom component can be rendered instead.

In the demo below, the rating column reuses the numeric operators but the rating component is used to enter the value of the filter.

Custom column types

When defining a custom column type, by default the grid will reuse the operators from the type that was extended. The filter operators can then be edited just like on a regular column.

const ratingColumnType: GridColTypeDef = {
  extendType: 'number',
  filterOperators: getGridNumericOperators().filter(
    (operator) => operator.value === '>' || operator.value === '<',
  ),
};

Custom filter panel

You can customize the rendering of the filter panel as shown in the component section of the documentation.

Customize the filter panel content

The customization of the filter panel content can be performed by passing props to the default <GridFilterPanel /> component. The available props allow overriding:

• The linkOperators (can contains GridLinkOperator.And and GridLinkOperator.Or)
• The order of the column selector (can be "asc" or "desc")
• Any prop of the input components

Input components can be customized by using two approaches. You can pass a sx prop to any input container or you can use CSS selectors on nested components of the filter panel. More details are available in the demo.

Customize the filter panel position

The demo below shows how to anchor the filter panel to the toolbar button instead of the column header.

Server-side filter

Filtering can be run server-side by setting the filterMode prop to server, and implementing the onFilterModelChange handler.

The example below demonstrates how to achieve server-side filtering.

Quick filter

Quick filter allows filtering rows by multiple columns with a single text input. To enable it, you can add the <GridToolbarQuickFilter /> component to your custom toolbar or pass showQuickFilter to the default <GridToolbar />.

By default, the quick filter considers the input as a list of values separated by space and keeps only rows that contain all the values.

Custom filtering logic

The logic used for quick filter can be switched to filter rows that contain at least one of the values specified instead of testing if it contains all of them. To do so, set quickFilterLogicOperator to GridLinkOperator.Or as follow:

initialState={{
  filter: {
    filterModel: {
      items: [],
      quickFilterLogicOperator: GridLinkOperator.Or,
    },
  },
}}

With the default settings, quick filter will only consider columns with types 'string','number', and 'singleSelect'.

• For 'string' columns, the cell must contain the value
• For 'number' columns, the cell must equal the value
• For 'singleSelect' columns, the cell must start with the value

To modify or add the quick filter operators, add the property getApplyQuickFilterFn to the column definition. This function is quite similar to getApplyFilterFn. This function takes as an input a value of the quick filter and returns another function that takes the cell value as an input and returns true if it satisfies the operator condition.

In the example below, a custom filter is created for the date column to check if it contains the correct year.

getApplyFilterFn: (value: string) => {
  if (!value || value.length !== 4 || !/\d{4}/.test(value)) {
    // If the value is not a 4 digit string, it can not be a year so applying this filter is useless
    return null;
  }
  return (params: GridCellParams): boolean => {
    return params.value.getFullYear() === Number(value);
  };
};

To remove the quick filtering on a given column set getApplyFilterFn: undefined.

In the demo bellow, the column "Name" is not searchable with the quick filter, and 4 digits figures will be compared to the year of column "Created on".

Parsing values

The values used by the quick filter are obtained by splitting with space. If you want to implement a more advanced logic, the <GridToolbarQuickFilter/> component accepts a prop quickFilterParser. This function takes the string from the search text field and returns an array of values.

For example, the following parser allows to search words containing a space by using the ',' to split values.

<GridToolbarQuickFilter
  quickFilterParser={(searchInput) =>
    searchInput.split(',').map((value) => value.trim())
  }
  debounceMs={200} // time before applying the new quick filter value
/>

In the following demo, the quick filter value "Saint Martin, Saint Lucia" will return rows with country is Saint Martin or Saint Lucia.

apiRef

⚠️ Only use this API as the last option. Give preference to the props to control the grid.

Selectors

More information about the selectors and how to use them on the dedicated page

API

• DataGrid
• DataGridPro
• GridFilterModel
• GridFilterItem
• GridFilterOperator