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Change the value of a text input icon on the client

Source: R/input-icon.R
updateTextInputIcon.Rd

Change the value of a text input icon on the client

Usage

updateTextInputIcon(
  session = getDefaultReactiveDomain(),
  inputId,
  label = NULL,
  value = NULL,
  placeholder = 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.

value

Initial value.

placeholder

A character string giving the user a hint as to what can be entered into the control. Internet Explorer 8 and 9 do not support this option.

icon

Icon to update, note that you can update icon only if initialized in textInputIcon().

Value

No value.

See also

textInputIcon()

Examples

library(shiny)
library(shinyWidgets)

ui <- fluidPage(
  textInputIcon(
    inputId = "id",
    label = "With an icon",
    icon = icon("circle-user")
  ),
  actionButton("updateValue", "Update value"),
  actionButton("updateIcon", "Update icon"),
  verbatimTextOutput("value")
)

server <- function(input, output, session) {

  output$value <- renderPrint(input$id)

  observeEvent(input$updateValue, {
    updateTextInputIcon(
      session = session,
      inputId = "id",
      value = paste(sample(letters, 8), collapse = "")
    )
  })

  observeEvent(input$updateIcon, {
    i <- sample(c("home", "gears", "dollar-sign", "globe", "sliders-h"), 1)
    updateTextInputIcon(
      session = session,
      inputId = "id",
      icon = icon(i)
    )
  })

}

if (interactive())
  shinyApp(ui, server)