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Gildas GarciaandDanny White ca28c945db Improve Table Editor design and accessibility (#50797)
## Problem

Controls in the new table sheet's Columns section had inconsistent
styling, alignment and focus states. Some icon-only actions were faint
or lacked useful accessible names and tooltips, while related controls
used different dropdown treatments.

<img width="1428" height="250" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9d1ad80d-2de0-4736-8ddb-0260e10ddacc"
/>

## Solution

- Align the column headers and fields on the same grid, and keep the
foreign key action inside the name field in every state.
- Give the drag, foreign key, suggestions, extra options and remove
actions consistent button styling, sizing, hover and focus states, with
accessible names and tooltips.
- Move masking into Extra options and include it in the options count.
Remove the separators around the former inline controls.
- Use the design system's ComboboxTrigger for column types and align the
Default value select's radius with it. Update the suggestions dropdown
icon.
- Tidy related field labels and update the affected table editor tests.

The underlying column values and database behaviour are unchanged.

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src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/56559e72-f289-44bc-999f-c1f3158c8f65"
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src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d05340fc-a460-4b5c-aaff-41127f692592"
/> |

## Review instructions

- Open **Table Editor → New table** and inspect the Columns section.
Check that Name, Type and Default value headers align with their fields.
- Tab through the row actions. Check their focus states, accessible
names and tooltips, including the foreign key control with and without a
relation.
- Drag a column to reorder it, open Extra options and toggle masking.
Check the options count and that the other settings still work.
- Compare the closed Type and Default value dropdowns, including an enum
default value.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Improvements**
* Updated the column editor layout and controls for naming,
sensitive-data settings, extra options, foreign-key editing, and column
removal, with clearer tooltips and more consistent interactions.
* Added accessible help tooltips for the Name and Default Value fields.
* Updated column-type and suggested-value controls, including clearer
guidance for choosing a suggested value.
  * Sensitive-data settings are now available in the extra-options menu.
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Co-authored-by: Danny White <3104761+dnywh@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-24 12:37:30 +02:00
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Supabase Studio

A dashboard for managing your self-hosted Supabase project, and used on our hosted platform. Built with:

What's included

Studio is designed to work with existing deployments - either the local hosted, docker setup, or our CLI. It is not intended for managing the deployment and administration of projects - that's out of scope.

As such, the features exposed on Studio for existing deployments are limited to those which manage your database:

  • Table & SQL editors
    • Saved queries are unavailable
  • Database management
    • Policies, roles, extensions, replication
  • API documentation

Managing Project Settings

Project settings are managed outside of the Dashboard. If you use docker compose, you should manage the settings in your docker-compose file. If you're deploying Supabase to your own cloud, you should store your secrets and env vars in a vault or secrets manager.

How to contribute?

  • Branch from master and name your branches with the following structure
    • {type}/{branch_name}
      • Type: chore | fix | feature
      • The branch name is arbitrary — just make sure it summarizes the work.
  • When you send a PR to master, it will automatically tag members of the frontend team for review.
  • Review the main contributing guide to help test your feature before sending a PR.
  • The Dashboard is under active development. You should run git pull frequently to make sure you're up to date.

Developer Quickstart

Note

Supabase internal use: To develop on Studio locally with the backend services, see the instructions in the internal infrastructure repo.

# You'll need to be on Node v22
# in /studio

## For external contributors
pnpm install # install dependencies
pnpm run dev # start dev server

## For internal contributors
## First clone the private supabase/platform repo and follow instructions for setting up mise
mise studio  # Run from supabase/platform alongside `mise infra`

## For all
pnpm run test # run tests
pnpm run test -- --watch # run tests in watch mode

Running within a self-hosted environment

Follow the self-hosting guide to get started.

cd ..
cd docker
docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f ./dev/docker-compose.dev.yml up

Once you've got that set up, update .env in the studio folder with the corresponding values.

POSTGRES_PASSWORD=
SUPABASE_ANON_KEY=
SUPABASE_SERVICE_KEY=

Then run the following commands to install dependencies and start the dashboard.

npm install
npm run dev

If you would like to configure different defaults for "Default Organization" and "Default Project", you will need to update the .env in the studio folder with the corresponding values.

DEFAULT_ORGANIZATION_NAME=
DEFAULT_PROJECT_NAME=