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• kthorngren Posts: 20,276Questions: 26Answers: 4,765

  January 2021 Answer ✓

  One way is to create hidden buttons and use button().trigger() to trigger the button you want. You can use the Direct Insertion method into a hidden div.

  There maybe other ways for this.

  Kevin
• stergios Posts: 12Questions: 2Answers: 0

  January 2021

  Hey, that worked well. I have not hidden the buttons yet, but I did get them to work via other elements from within my GUI.

  At first I used:

  $(myDataTable.buttons().container()[0].children[index]).click() ;

  But after your suggestion I switched to:

  myDataTable.button( index ).trigger();

  Thanks for the guidance,

  Stergios
• stergios Posts: 12Questions: 2Answers: 0

  January 2021

  As a follow up comment, I successfully have hidden the buttons with the export functionality intact and working as I access it from other parts of my GUI.

  However, I am confused by the example code. Is the 2nd argument in the call to the jQuery function '$()' in the Direct Insertion method necessary? Here's the example repeated:

  table.buttons().container()
  .appendTo( $('.col-sm-6:eq(0)', table.table().container() ) );

  What is the purpose of this argument:

  table.table().container()

  in the call to the Selector function '$()'

  $('.col-sm-6:eq(0)', table.table().container() )

  I ignored using the 2nd argument in my own code with no apparent problems.

  Thanks,

  Stergios
• colin Posts: 15,142Questions: 1Answers: 2,586

  January 2021 Answer ✓

  It just makes the selector more specific, but if it works without - go for it

  Colin
• stergios Posts: 12Questions: 2Answers: 0

  January 2021

  I see. I'm so used to calling the selector function with multiple arguments in just one string such as

  $("div#id23 a.myClassName")

  I did not think about passing it multiple arguments, possibly as objects, to do the same. I learned something new!

  Again, thanks for the help!

  Stergios