---
title: NSGridView
framework: appkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: appkit/nsgridview
---

# NSGridView

A container that aligns views in a flexible grid of rows and columns.

## Declaration

```swift
class NSGridView
```

## Overview

Overview A grid view helps you lay out content, such as photos or thumbnails, in a row-column arrangement similar to a spreadsheet. Within a grid view, an item that occupies a single row-column intersection is represented by an NSGridCell object.

## Topics

### Creating a Grid View

- [init(numberOfColumns:rows:)](appkit/nsgridview/init(numberofcolumns:rows:).md)
- [init(views:)](appkit/nsgridview/init(views:).md)
- [init(frame:)](appkit/nsgridview/init(frame:).md)
- [init(coder:)](appkit/nsgridview/init(coder:).md)

### Getting Information About the Grid

- [numberOfRows](appkit/nsgridview/numberofrows.md)
- [numberOfColumns](appkit/nsgridview/numberofcolumns.md)
- [index(of:)](appkit/nsgridview/index(of:)-32sdd.md)
- [row(at:)](appkit/nsgridview/row(at:).md)
- [column(at:)](appkit/nsgridview/column(at:).md)
- [index(of:)](appkit/nsgridview/index(of:)-6zs2o.md)

### Adding, Removing, and Moving Rows

- [addRow(with:)](appkit/nsgridview/addrow(with:).md)
- [insertRow(at:with:)](appkit/nsgridview/insertrow(at:with:).md)
- [removeRow(at:)](appkit/nsgridview/removerow(at:).md)
- [moveRow(at:to:)](appkit/nsgridview/moverow(at:to:).md)

### Adding, Removing, and Moving Columns

- [addColumn(with:)](appkit/nsgridview/addcolumn(with:).md)
- [insertColumn(at:with:)](appkit/nsgridview/insertcolumn(at:with:).md)
- [removeColumn(at:)](appkit/nsgridview/removecolumn(at:).md)
- [moveColumn(at:to:)](appkit/nsgridview/movecolumn(at:to:).md)

### Managing Grid Spacing and Alignment

- [sizedForContent](appkit/nsgridview/sizedforcontent.md)
- [columnSpacing](appkit/nsgridview/columnspacing.md)
- [rowSpacing](appkit/nsgridview/rowspacing.md)
- [rowAlignment](appkit/nsgridview/rowalignment.md)
- [xPlacement](appkit/nsgridview/xplacement.md)
- [yPlacement](appkit/nsgridview/yplacement.md)

### Creating and Merging Cells

- [cell(atColumnIndex:rowIndex:)](appkit/nsgridview/cell(atcolumnindex:rowindex:).md)
- [cell(for:)](appkit/nsgridview/cell(for:).md)
- [mergeCells(inHorizontalRange:verticalRange:)](appkit/nsgridview/mergecells(inhorizontalrange:verticalrange:).md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [NSView](appkit/nsview.md)

### Conforms To

- [CVarArg](swift/cvararg.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [NSAccessibilityElementProtocol](appkit/nsaccessibilityelementprotocol.md)
- [NSAccessibilityProtocol](appkit/nsaccessibilityprotocol.md)
- [NSAnimatablePropertyContainer](appkit/nsanimatablepropertycontainer.md)
- [NSAppearanceCustomization](appkit/nsappearancecustomization.md)
- [NSCoding](foundation/nscoding.md)
- [NSDraggingDestination](appkit/nsdraggingdestination.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)
- [NSStandardKeyBindingResponding](appkit/nsstandardkeybindingresponding.md)
- [NSTouchBarProvider](appkit/nstouchbarprovider.md)
- [NSUserActivityRestoring](appkit/nsuseractivityrestoring.md)
- [NSUserInterfaceItemIdentification](appkit/nsuserinterfaceitemidentification.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)