button().disable()

Disable the selected button.
Please note - this property requires the Buttons extension for DataTables.

Description

It can often be useful to enable and disable a button based on some external logic. A common example is an editing button that is disabled when no rows are selected in a table.

When a button is disabled its visual appearance is updated to show its deactivated status (this is done by adding the class disabled to the button element). Additionally, when a disabled button is clicked on (or otherwise activated by the keyboard or button().trigger()) the button's action is not executed.

This method can be used to dynamically disable a single button. Unlike its counterpart method, button().enable(), this method cannot be used to both enable and disable a button, it can only be used to disable.

Type

Examples

var table = new DataTable('#myTable');

table.button('2-1').disable();

var table = new DataTable('#myTable');

if (table.rows({ selected: true }).indexes().length === 0) {
	table.button('edit:name').disable();
}
else {
	table.button('edit:name').enable();
}