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AG Grid is designed to work on touch devices. By default, browsers convert tap events to mouse click events. This means, for example, if you tap on a cell in AG Grid, the cell will get selected just like you clicked on the cell with a mouse. The remainder of this page explains touch gestured understood by the grid which are NOT simply the grid reacting to taps as mouse clicks. They are touch gestures coded into the grid.

Touch Gestures for AG Grid Community

The following touch gestures are supported by AG Grid Community.

  • Move columns by touch-dragging the column header with a touch.
  • Move column groups by touch-dragging the column group header with a touch.
  • Tap the column header to sort by that column.
  • Tap and hold the column header for 500ms to bring up the column menu.
  • Tap and drag the column header resize handle to resize it

Touch Gestures for AG Grid Enterprise

The following touch gestures are support by AG Grid Enterprise - these are in addition to the AG Grid Community gestures mentioned above - they are are relevant to AG Grid Enterprise only features.

  • Drag columns out of the tool panel using drag.
  • Drag columns out of the row group and pivot drop zones by dragging.

Enabling Double Clicking on Mobile Devices

The default behaviour on many mobile devices when a page is double clicked on it to zoom in. To prevent this behaviour so that a double click would, for example, edit a cell you need to disable viewport zooming.

You can disable viewport zooming by setting the following tag at the top level page:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />

Column Menu Touch Configuration

On non-touch devices, the column menu icon in the header is hidden by default (for the legacy column menu), and appears on mouseover. On touch devices, this mouseover behaviour is not possible.

The column menu can still be displayed via tap and hold on the column header as described above. However there is no visual indicator to the user that a menu exists. This can be resolved by setting the grid option suppressMenuHide = true. Note that when this is enabled, the default tap and hold behaviour will no longer apply, and the column menu icon must be tapped instead.

This is demonstrated in the following example: