external buttons from the table

bestoff

Hi, I am creating copy, download (excel and pdf) buttons outside the table. I initialized datatable with buttons: ['copy'] and then hid it to make my buttons work. Is there a method to not put buttons: ['copy'] in js and still make the buttons go maybe through api? Thanks

allan

You mean you want to trigger the default action from your own custom button? See that is possible, you need to call the button's action function. There is an example for how to do that in the last example on this page.

Another option would be to use the default buttons and then move them to wherever you want on your page.

Allan