How to Copy and Paste Data from Your Components by Alex Volfson Users ask me how to copy and paste data from their components. Many components have a complex interaction model, so the default system copy is not always going…

Grid Watermarking by Kevin Cassidy The Ext JS grid is a great tool for presenting information in a handy layout. Some users may want to print this information for use in meetings or promotional materials. However, you may find yourself…

Full-Width Field Error Messages by Kevin Cassidy Have you ever wanted your validation messages to appear under your form field (msgTarget: ‘under’), but found that the validation message was squashed because of the way the message only appears under the…

Using Awesome Font Awesome by Seth Lemmons Ext JS 6 ships with the new Triton theme that uses font icons from Font Awesome for background images. But, did you know you could use those same icons (and many more from…

Top Support Tips Everlasting Scrollbars by Kevin Cassidy Have you ever wished you could always display your Touch container's scrollbars instead of them automatically appearing and disappearing? Now you can. With this simple override, you can make use of Ext.scroll.View's private indicatorsHidingDelay property. This…

ExtraParams in Ext JS 5 by Greg Barry Ext JS 4 allowed users to append extraParams directly to a connection like so: Ext.Ajax.extraParams = { foo: "bar" }; Due to changes in the Ext JS 5 data package, this is…

Removing Grid Cell Focus by Greg Barry As of Ext JS 5.0.1, we’ve added some significant improvements regarding Accessibility and ARIA support. While we do encourage users to use these new additions, we understand that the default style may not…

New Framework, New Doctype by Greg Barry In Ext JS 5, we support IE 8+, so we no longer encourage users to use the strict HTML 4 doctype. We now recommend using an HTML5 doctype. We also recommend the X-UA-Compatible…

Variable Heights in Grid Rows by Seth Lemmons Grid rows often maintain the same height throughout your grid. However, this may not always be the case, depending on the data you provide for the grid cells to consume. Under most…