# GUI to edit matrix in Julia?

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**Category:** Data\
**Tags:** question, gui\
**Created:** [October 19, 2020, 10:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gui-to-edit-matrix-in-julia/48663 "2020-10-19T22:53:24Z")\
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I am not aware that such a package exists, but agree that it would be very helpful.  
Ideally, it would be a html / js frontend coupled to a Julia Tables.jl compatible data structure, like a DataFrame. This way, it could be used in Pluto or Julia web applications (e.g. with Genie).

For the frontend, there are already solutions available like

> **[GitHub - mindmup/editable-table: tiny jQuery/Bootstrap widget that makes a...](https://github.com/mindmup/editable-table)**
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> tiny jQuery/Bootstrap widget that makes a HTML table editable - GitHub - mindmup/editable-table: tiny jQuery/Bootstrap widget that makes a HTML table editable

(this may not be the best choice because the repo is not active anymore).

It would be a nice project to wrap something like it into a Julia library, but unfortunately I do not have any JS knowledge ☹

Related is the following discussion for displaying tabular data:

> [@Interactive Data Table in Pluto.jl (via a silly hack)](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/interactive-data-table-in-pluto-jl-via-a-silly-hack/44678/26):
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> @mthelm85 Thanks man actually I change the function just a little, but your advice help me a lot. Now I’m trying to save this function in a Module so I can call it from any .jl or Pluto notebook essentially, just typing using MyModule o the name you want, if you have the time it would be really usefull to have this module ready to download from GitHub, this hack that you did help me a lot, I know that is gonna be useful for a lot of people out there. function data\_table(data,columns,ids) return…

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