Numeric

    function getCarData() {
      return [
{car: "Mercedes A 160", year: 2017, price_usd: 7000, price_eur: 7000},
{car: "Citroen C4 Coupe", year: 2018, price_usd: 8330, price_eur: 8330},
{car: "Audi A4 Avant", year: 2019, price_usd: 33900, price_eur: 33900},
{car: "Opel Astra", year: 2020, price_usd: 5000, price_eur: 5000},
{car: "BMW 320i Coupe", year: 2021, price_usd: 30500, price_eur: 30500}
      ];
    }

By default, Handsontable treats all cell values as string type. This is because <textarea> returns a string as its value. In many cases you will prefer cell values to be treated as number type. This allows to format displayed numbers nicely and sort them correctly.

To trigger the Numeric cell type, use the option type: 'numeric' in columns array or cells function. Make sure your cell values are numbers and not strings as Handsontable will not parse strings to numbers. You can input float-typed values in the numeric editor only using a dot or a comma as a decimal separator. For example, both 500000.5, 500000,5 will be accepted. You are not able to use thousands separator in the editor.

You can format the displayed values of the entered numbers. It can be done using the numericFormat option. Please keep in mind that it have no influence on the way you enter data.

Note that all the positive and negative integers whose magnitude is no greater than 2⁵³ (+/- 9007199254740991) are representable in the Number type (safe integer). Any calculations that are performed on bigger numbers won't be calculated precisely due to JavaScript limitation (more at w3schools).

var
  container = document.getElementById('example1'),
  hot;

hot = new Handsontable(container, {
  data: getCarData(),
  colHeaders: ['Car', 'Year', 'Price ($)', 'Price (€)'],
  columnSorting : true,
  columns: [
    {
      data: 'car'
      // 1nd column is simple text, no special options here
    },
    {
      data: 'year',
      type: 'numeric'
    },
    {
      data: 'price_usd',
      type: 'numeric',
      numericFormat: {
        pattern: '$0,0.00',
        culture: 'en-US' // this is the default culture, set up for USD
      },
      allowEmpty: false
    },
    {
      data: 'price_eur',
      type: 'numeric',
      numericFormat: {
        pattern: '0,0.00 $',
        culture: 'de-DE' // use this for EUR (German),
        // more cultures available on http://numbrojs.com/languages.html
      }
    }
  ]
});