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Scroll Modes

Updated on Feb 9, 2026

The native Vue Grid by Kendo UI enables you to configure its layout modes.

You can set the following modes to the Grid:

Scrollable
Non-scrollable
Virtual scrolling

Scrollable

When scrolling is enabled, the content of the Grid is rendered as tables—one for the header area, another one for the scrollable data area, and a third one for the footer area. This behavior ensures that the header and footer areas of the Grid are always visible while the user scrolls vertically. The scrollable mode is enabled by default. To configure it, use the scrollable option, which also requires you to set the height of the Grid through its style property.

Conditional Scrolling

By configuring the style.maxHeight property, you can set the Grid in scrollable mode only when its rendered content exceeds certain height limits. If the content does not exceed the set maximum height, the height of the Grid will be the same as the height of its content.

Non-Scrollable

When the non-scrollable mode is enabled, the Grid renders its data as a single table and the scrollbar is not displayed. To configure the non-scrollable mode, set scrollable to none.

Virtual Scrolling

Virtual scrolling provides an alternative to paging. While the user is scrolling the table, the Grid requests and displays only the visible pages.

Setup

To enable virtualization, simply set the Grid's height using the style property.

Optionally, you can further refine and customize virtualization behavior in the Grid by configuring the following props:

skip — Specifies the number of records to skip.
take — Defines the number of records to display.
total — Sets the total number of records.
pageSize — Determines the number of records per page.
rowHeight — Sets the height of each row.
detailRowHeight — Sets the height of each detail row.

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Using Virtualization with Grouping

You can use virtual scrolling in combination with grouped data.

Set the groupable and group options of the Grid.
Set the scrollable option to virtual.
Handle the emitted onDatastatechange event. The onDatastatechange event fires upon user interaction with the scrolling or changing the groups, and then processes the data and returns the data to the Grid.

To programmatically implement the processing of the data, either:

Send a request to the server to execute the grouping on the server side, or
Use the process method of the DataQuery library which automatically processes the data.

The Grid expects the grouped data to be a collection of GroupResults.

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Using Virtualization with Detail Rows

You can also use DOM virtualization in combination with detail rows.

Set the detail to the detail component.
Set the detailExpand prop to handle the expand state of the Grid internally.
Set the onDetailexpandchange

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Using Virtualization with Responsive Columns

The virtual scrolling functionality requires that all Grid rows have an equal, predefined height. However, you can still keep virtual scrolling and use responsive columns which have different cell templates based on the column width.

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Debouncing pageChange Events

When configured for virtualization, the Grid fires the onPageChange event as often as possible. This behavior allows for a smoother scrolling experience when the data is available in memory.

If the data is requested from a remote service, it is advisable to debounce or otherwise limit the page changes.

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Infinite Scrolling

After the user scrolls to the end of the page, the Grid enables you to load more records by appending additional pages of data on demand. To implement the infinite scrolling feature, use the onScroll event and add more data once the user is near to the bottom of the Grid.

The following example demonstrates how to dynamically add data to the Grid while the user is scrolling.

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