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# Table View

Display custom data in rows and columns.

## Topics

### Views

[`NSTableView`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTableView)

A set of related records, displayed in rows that represent individual records and columns that represent the attributes of those records.

[`NSTableCellView`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTableCellView)

A reusable container view shown for a particular cell in a table view that uses rows for content.

### Management

[`NSTableViewDataSource`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTableViewDataSource)

A set of methods that a table view uses to provide data to a table view and to allow the editing of the table view’s data source object.

[`NSTableViewDelegate`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTableViewDelegate)

A set of optional methods you implement in a table view delegate to customize the behavior of the table view.

[`NSTableViewDiffableDataSource`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTableViewDiffableDataSource-c5gl)

The object you use to manage data and provide items for a table view.

### Management

[`NSTableViewDataSource`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTableViewDataSource)

A set of methods that a table view uses to provide data to a table view and to allow the editing of the table view’s data source object.

[`NSTableViewDelegate`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTableViewDelegate)

A set of optional methods you implement in a table view delegate to customize the behavior of the table view.

[`NSTableViewDiffableDataSourceReference`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTableViewDiffableDataSourceReference)

The object you use to manage data and provide items for a table view.

### Rows and Columns

[`NSTableHeaderView`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTableHeaderView)

An object that draws headers over a table view’s columns and handles mouse events in those headers.

[`NSTableHeaderCell`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTableHeaderCell)

An object that a table header view uses to draw the content of the column headers.

[`NSTableRowView`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTableRowView)

The view shown for a row in a table view.

[`NSTableColumn`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTableColumn)

The display characteristics and identifier for a column in a table view.

[`NSTableViewRowAction`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTableViewRowAction)

A single action to present when the user swipes horizontally on a table row.

[`ResizingOptions`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTableColumn/ResizingOptions)


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