Editable cell styling support

[Eralmidia]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When having a grid with a lot of columns, it can be tricky for the user to easily determine which columns are editable (when in row edit mode).

Describe the solution you'd like

The ability to style the background color of editable cells to a different color than non-editable (read-only) cells.

[StefanIvanov]

@Eralmidia thanks for logging this request. Would you say that a style for the text of editable/non-editable cells for the row under edit mode at the moment would work for you as well? Imagine the most simple scenario where cells belonging to non-editable columns have a disabled-style text, while editable ones have a more active look i.e. the current style used for all cells on the edited row?
In your case do you want to make this difference very prominent or a more subtle approach like the above is also viable for you?

[Eralmidia]

@StefanIvanov Yes, absolutely, that would work fine as well 👍

[StefanIvanov]

We have updated the spec and will be able to start implementing the design

[Eralmidia]

Looks good 👍 One related question about editing: In the spec, the edited field has an underline, like the input fields does.

This doesn't seem to be the default. Is there a setting for this, or are you using custom templates with igx-inputs?

[StefanIvanov]

I noticed this too, the spec needs updating that removes that underline since it is outdated now :)

[Eralmidia]

@StefanIvanov Just a thought on this one. While the solution of disabled looking text works for row editing, it wouldn't help much in a "Add row scenario", where no fields are already filled out. In that case, something like editable background colors might have been better. Don't know if this is a scenario you have considered?

[StefanIvanov]

@Eralmidia we will discuss this scenario internally, the reason we wanted to avoid using the background was because of a number of other features that do so such as selection, active cell, and conditional cell styling, where people often define background styles based on the value in a cell.

[StefanIvanov]

Reopening this issue in order to propagate the changes to the row adding scenario
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