Customizing straight table appearance and navigation
Last updated: 2026-11-13Under Appearance in the properties panel, you can change the functional appearance of a straight table. For example, you can add a hover menu, apply text wrapping, and set accessibility options.
Other aspects of the straight table's appearance can be customized with styling. For more information, see Styling a straight table.
Managing accessibility settings
The straight table has several accessibility enhancements, which you can turn on in the properties panel under Appearance > Presentation > Accessibility options. Consider turning both settings on for optimal accessibility.
Use pagination
With the Use pagination setting, change how many rows are displayed in the chart at a time. With pagination, instead of displaying all rows at once, only a certain amount of rows are displayed. Users can use the arrow buttons at the bottom of the table to navigate.
Increased accessibility
The Increased accessibility setting simplifies column header interaction so that clicking a header opens a menu with sorting, search, and selection options. This improves table accessibility and enhances screen reader support.
Increased accessibility is turned off by default in new straight tables. The table below outlines the differences between having the setting on or off.
| User action | How the action is done (Increased accessibility on) | How the action is done (Increased accessibility off) |
|---|---|---|
| Sort column | User clicks a column header and selects a sort option. | User clicks a column header one or more times. |
| Search in column | User clicks column header and selects the search option. | User clicks  icon in column header. |
| Change cyclic dimension values | User clicks column header and selects the option to change dimension value. | User clicks  icon in column header. |
Turning on the hover menu
Under Appearance > General, use the toggle for Show hover menu to choose whether you want the hover menu to display in the visualization.
Showing details
Under Appearance > General, set Show details to Show if you want to allow users to be able to choose to view details, such as descriptions, measures, and dimensions.
Allowing users to view expressions in the chart
Under Appearance > General, set Show expressions to Show if you want to allow users to be able to choose to view expressions.
Using text wrapping
When text in the straight table is too long to be displayed given the provided space, some text is not shown and instead represented with an ellipsis. Under Appearance > Presentation, you can use the settings under Multiline text wrapping to wrap the text over multiple lines in the table. This setting can be controlled individually at the header and cell levels:
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Wrap text in headers (table headers only)
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Wrap text in cells (table cells only)
Styling panel. See Customizing the grid.Customizing representation of null values
Null values can be customized in the styling panel. See Customizing null values.
Hiding the column header
You can hide the header at the top of the straight table that displays column titles and allows user to change the sorting. Under Appearance > Presentation, activate the Hide header setting.