Simple Filters

The grid provides three Simple Filters for filtering strings, numbers and dates.

Text Filter

Number Filter

Date Filter

Each of the filters works in a similar way. This page describes the common parts of the Simple Filters.

Example: Simple Filters

The example below demonstrates all three Simple Filters working. Note the following:

• The Athlete column has a Text Filter.
• The Age column has a Number Filter.
• The Date column has a Date Filter.
• filter=false is set on the Total column to disable the filter.

Remember Filtering works with all frameworks (e.g. Angular and React) as well as plain JavaScript.

Simple Filter Parts

Each Simple Filter follows the same layout. The only layout difference is the type of input field presented to the user: for Text and Number Filters a text field is displayed, whereas for Date Filters a date picker field is displayed.

Filter Options

Each filter provides a dropdown list of filter options to select from. Each filter option represents a filtering strategy, e.g. 'equals', 'not equals', etc.

Each filter's default Filter Options are listed below, as well as information on Defining Custom Filter Options.

Filter Value

Each filter option takes zero (a possibility with custom options), one (for most) or two (for 'in range') values. The value type depends on the filter type, e.g. the Date Filter takes Date values.

Condition 1 and Condition 2

Each filter initially only displays Condition 1. When the user completes the Condition 1 section of the filter, Condition 2 becomes visible.

Join Operator

The Join Operator decides how Condition 1 and Condition 2 are joined, using either AND or OR.

Simple Filters Parameters

Simple Filters are configured though the filterParams attribute of the column definition. All of the parameters from Provided Filters are available:

In addition, the following parameters are also available, depending on the type of filter being used:

Example: Simple Filter Options

The following example demonstrates those configuration options that can be applied to any Simple Filter.

• The Athlete column shows a Text Filter with default behavior for all options.
• The Country column shows a Text Filter with filterOptions set to show a different list of available options, and defaultOption set to change the default option selected.
• The Age column has a Number Filter with alwaysShowBothConditions set to true so that both condition are always shown. The defaultJoinOperator is also set to 'OR' rather than the default ('AND').
• The Date column has a Date Filter with suppressAndOrCondition set to true, so that only the first condition is shown.

Simple Filter Options

Each simple filter presents a list of options to the user. The list of options for each filter are as follows:

Note that the empty filter option is primarily used when creating Custom Filter Options. When 'Choose One' is displayed, the filter is not active.

Default Filter Options

Each of the three filter types has the following default options and default selected option.

Simple Filter Models

When saving or restoring state on a filter, the Filter Model is used. The Filter Model represents the state of the filter. For example, the code below first gets and then sets the Filter Model for the Athlete column:

// get filter instance (Note - React users must use the async version
// of this method by passing a callback parameter)
var filterInstance = gridOptions.api.getFilterInstance('athlete');

// get filter model
var model = filterInstance.getModel();

// set filter model and update
filterInstance.setModel({
    type: 'endsWith',
    filter: 'thing'
});

// tell the grid to refresh rows based on the filter. The filter does
// not do this automatically, allowing you to batch multiple filter
// updates for performance
gridOptions.api.onFilterChanged();

This section explains what the Filter Model looks like for each of the simple filters. The interface used by each filter type is as follows:

// text filter uses this filter model
interface TextFilterModel {
    // always 'text' for text filter
    filterType: string;

    // one of the filter options, e.g. 'equals'
    type: string;

    // the text value associated with the filter.
    // it's optional as custom filters may not
    // have a text value
    filter?: string;
}

// number filter uses this filter model
interface NumberFilterModel {
    // always 'number' for number filter
    filterType: string;

    // one of the filter options, e.g. 'equals'
    type: string;

    // the number value(s) associated with the filter.
    // custom filters can have no values (hence both are optional).
    // range filter has two values (from and to).
    filter?: number;
    filterTo?: number;
}

// date filter uses this filter model
interface DateFilterModel {
    // always 'date' for date filter
    filterType: string;

    // one of the filter options, e.g. 'equals'
    type: string;

    // the date value(s) associated with the filter.
    // the type is string and format is always YYYY-MM-DD e.g. 2019-05-24
    // custom filters can have no values (hence both are optional).
    // range filter has two values (from and to).
    dateFrom?: string;
    dateTo?: string;
}

Examples of filter model instances are as follows:

// number filter with one condition, with equals type
var numberLessThan35 = {
    filterType: 'number',
    type: 'lessThan',
    filter: 35
};

// number filter with one condition, with inRange type
var numberBetween35And40 = {
    filterType: 'number',
    type: 'inRange',
    filter: 35,
    filterTo: 40
};

If the filter has both Condition 1 and Condition 2 set, then two instances of the model are created and wrapped inside a Combined Model. A combined model looks as follows:

// A filter combining two conditions
// M is either TextFilterModel, NumberFilterModel or DateFilterModel
interface ICombinedSimpleModel<M> {
    // the filter type: date, number or text
    filterType: string;

    operator: JoinOperator;

    // two instances of the filter model
    condition1: M;
    condition2: M;
}

type JoinOperator = 'AND' | 'OR';

An example of a filter model with two conditions is as follows:

// number filter with two conditions, both are equals type
var numberEquals18OrEquals20 = {
    filterType: 'number',
    operator: 'OR'
    condition1: {
        filterType: 'number',
        type: 'equals',
        filter: 18
    },
    condition2: {
        filterType: 'number',
        type: 'equals',
        filter: 18
    }
};

Custom Filter Options

For applications that have bespoke filtering requirements, it is also possible to add new custom filtering options to the number, text and date filters. For example, a 'Not Equal (with Nulls)' filter option could be included alongside the built in 'Not Equal' option.

Custom filter options are supplied to the grid via filterParams.filterOptions and must conform to the following interface:

interface IFilterOptionDef {
    displayKey: string;
    displayName: string;
    test: (filterValue: any, cellValue: any) => boolean;
    hideFilterInput?: boolean;
}

The displayKey should contain a unique key value that doesn't clash with the built-in filter keys. A default displayName should also be provided but can be replaced by a locale-specific value using a localeTextFunc.

The custom filter logic is implemented through the test function, which receives the filterValue typed by the user along with the cellValue from the grid, and returns true or false.

It is also possible to hide the filter input field by enabling the optional property hideFilterInput.

Custom FilterOptionDefs can be supplied alongside the built-in filter option string keys as shown below:

{
    field: 'age',
    filter: 'agNumberColumnFilter',
    filterParams: {
        filterOptions: [
            'lessThan',
            {
                displayKey: 'lessThanWithNulls',
                displayName: 'Less Than with Nulls',
                test: function(filterValue, cellValue) {
                    return cellValue == null || cellValue < filterValue;
                }
            },
            'greaterThan',
            {
                displayKey: 'greaterThanWithNulls',
                displayName: 'Greater Than with Nulls',
                test: function(filterValue, cellValue) {
                    return cellValue == null || cellValue > filterValue;
                }
            }
        ]
    }
}

The following example demonstrates several custom filter options:

• The Athlete column contains two custom filter options: Starts with "A" and Starts with "N". Both these options take no text filter input.
• The Age column contains three custom filter options: evenNumbers, oddNumbers and blanks. It also uses the built-in 'empty' filter along with suppressAndOrCondition=true.
• The Date column includes a custom equalsWithNulls filter. Note that a custom comparator is still required for the built-in date filter options, i.e. equals.
• The Country column includes a custom notEqualNoNulls filter which also removes null values.
• The Country columns also demonstrates how localisation can be achieved via the gridOptions.localeTextFunc() callback function, where the default value is replaced for the filter option 'notEqualNoNulls'.
• Saving and restoring custom filter options via api.getFilterModel() and api.setFilterModel() can be tested using the provided buttons.

Blank Cells (Date and Number Filters)

If the row data contains blanks (i.e. null or undefined), by default the row won't be included in filter results. To change this, use the filter params includeBlanksInEquals, includeBlanksInLessThan, includeBlanksInGreaterThan and includeBlanksInRange. For example, the code snippet below configures a filter to include null for equals, but not for less than, greater than or in range:

filterParams = {
    includeBlanksInEquals: true,
    includeBlanksInLessThan: false,
    includeBlanksInGreaterThan: false,
    includeBlanksInRange: false
};

In the following example you can filter by age or date and see how blank values are included. Note the following:

• Columns Age and Date have both null and undefined values resulting in blank cells.
• Toggle the controls on the top to see how includeBlanksInEquals, includeBlanksInLessThan, includeBlanksInGreaterThan and includeBlanksInRange impact the search result.

Style Header on Filter

Each time a filter is applied to a column the CSS class ag-header-cell-filtered is added to the header. This can be used for adding style to headers that are filtered.

In the example below, we've added some styling to ag-header-cell-filtered, so when you filter a column you will notice the column header change.