Move column

You have two ways of moving columns within the grid:

Firstly, you are allowed to move column using drag-n-drop functiality.

enableColumnMove method enables drag-n-drop operations:

Otherwise, you can move column with script:

Move column before column

In the method above you should specify indexes of old and new columns.

Source

<link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../../codebase/dhtmlxgrid.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../codebase/skins/dhtmlxgrid_dhx_skyblue.css">
<script  src="../../codebase/dhtmlxcommon.js"></script>
<script  src="../../codebase/dhtmlxgrid.js"></script>
<script  src="../../codebase/ext/dhtmlxgrid_mcol.js"></script>
<script  src="../../codebase/dhtmlxgridcell.js"></script>
 
 
 
<div id="gridbox" style="width:600px;height:270px;background-color:white;"></div>
 
 
 
<script>mygrid = new dhtmlXGridObject('gridbox');
mygrid.setImagePath("../../codebase/imgs/");
mygrid.setHeader("Sales,Book Title,Author,Price,In Store,Shipping,Bestseller,Date of Publication");
mygrid.setInitWidths("50,150,120,80,80,80,80,200");
mygrid.setColAlign("right,left,left,right,center,left,center,center");
mygrid.setColTypes("dyn,ed,ed,price,ch,co,ra,ro");
mygrid.getCombo(5).put(2, 2);
mygrid.setColSorting("int,str,str,int,str,str,str,str");
mygrid.setColumnColor("white,#d5f1ff,#d5f1ff");
mygrid.enableMultiselect(true);
mygrid.setColumnMinWidth(50, 0);
mygrid.enableColumnMove(true);
mygrid.attachEvent("onBeforeCMove", function(a, b) {
    return confirm("Allow move column " + a + " to position " + b);
});
mygrid.init();
mygrid.setSkin("dhx_skyblue");
mygrid.loadXML("../common/grid_16_rows_columns_manipulations.xml");</script>