Change the label or icon of an action button on the client

Source: R/update-input.R

Change the label or icon of an action button on the client

updateActionButton(
  session = getDefaultReactiveDomain(),
  inputId,
  label = NULL,
  icon = NULL
)

updateActionLink(
  session = getDefaultReactiveDomain(),
  inputId,
  label = NULL,
  icon = NULL
)

Arguments

session

The session object passed to function given to shinyServer. Default is getDefaultReactiveDomain().
inputId

The id of the input object.
label

The label to set for the input object.
icon

An optional icon() to appear on the button.

Details

The input updater functions send a message to the client, telling it to change the settings of an input object. The messages are collected and sent after all the observers (including outputs) have finished running.

The syntax of these functions is similar to the functions that created the inputs in the first place. For example, numericInput() and updateNumericInput() take a similar set of arguments.

Any arguments with NULL values will be ignored; they will not result in any changes to the input object on the client.

For radioButtons(), checkboxGroupInput() and selectInput(), the set of choices can be cleared by using choices=character(0). Similarly, for these inputs, the selected item can be cleared by using selected=character(0).

See also

actionButton()

Examples

## Only run examples in interactive R sessions
if (interactive()) {

ui <- fluidPage(
  actionButton("update", "Update other buttons and link"),
  br(),
  actionButton("goButton", "Go"),
  br(),
  actionButton("goButton2", "Go 2", icon = icon("area-chart")),
  br(),
  actionButton("goButton3", "Go 3"),
  br(),
  actionLink("goLink", "Go Link")
)

server <- function(input, output, session) {
  observe({
    req(input$update)

    # Updates goButton's label and icon
    updateActionButton(session, "goButton",
      label = "New label",
      icon = icon("calendar"))

    # Leaves goButton2's label unchaged and
    # removes its icon
    updateActionButton(session, "goButton2",
      icon = character(0))

    # Leaves goButton3's icon, if it exists,
    # unchaged and changes its label
    updateActionButton(session, "goButton3",
      label = "New label 3")

    # Updates goLink's label and icon
    updateActionButton(session, "goLink",
      label = "New link label",
      icon = icon("link"))
  })
}

shinyApp(ui, server)
}