Pagination Strategies

Pagination is the part of table testing that most often depends on your app. Smart Table does not guess how your UI moves; you describe the movement with a pagination strategy.

This page shows common pagination shapes and the strategy primitive that usually fits.

StrategiesHover a pagination shape

Table FooterNext / Previous buttons

Use this for classic pagination components where Smart Table can click one page at a time.

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What To Notice

• goNext and goPrevious are enough for simple one-page-at-a-time searches.
• goToFirst is useful when a scan or reset should start from page one.
• goToLast enables optimal path planning (wrap-around) when navigating to distant pages.
• goToPage fits numbered pagination or page inputs.
• numberOfPages allows Smart Table to calculate the most efficient path between distant pages (e.g., jumping to the last page first).
• Infinite scroll and load-more UIs still use the pagination strategy slot; the strategy just scrolls or loads instead of clicking a numbered pagination component.

Each primitive should return true when movement happened and false when there is nowhere else to go. For exact signatures, see Pagination Strategies.