User Action Buttons

Add buttons for downloading, copying, printing, and changing column visibility of tables.

This feature module is part of the TablePress Premium plans.

This feature module can add buttons for various features to a table, namely

Column Visibility: Allow the visitor to choose the shown and hidden columns.
Copy: Copy the table content to the clipboard, for copy/paste.
CSV: Generate a CSV file of the table and offer it for download.
Excel: Generate an Excel file of the table and offer it for download.
PDF: Generate a basic PDF of the table’s text content and offer it for download.
Print: Generate a Print view for the table and open the browser’s Print dialog.

Feature description

This table has the possible buttons above its header row:

Name	Year	Country	Sport	Time	Rate	Fee
Eric	1986	Sweden	Soccer	05:25	40.4%	$7.14
Julia	1991	Germany	Basketball	04:45	20.3%	$2.90
Adam	2002	Indonesia	Golf	19:40	43.3%	$4.40
Kim	1986	Chile	Badminton	12:50	85.7%	$3.47
Jackson	1998	Australia	Baseball	06:09	66.7%	$6.85
Cade	1986	India	Badminton	19:43	42.4%	$3.22
Keaton	2003	Costa Rica	Basketball	10:31	40.0%	$5.88
Ray	1999	France	Gymnastics	18:08	59.5%	$1.10
Omar	1984	Brazil	Tennis	02:50	54.2%	$2.30
Maite	1986	Norway	Wrestling	15:09	29.5%	$3.91

Usage instructions

To use this feature with your tables, enable the “User Action Buttons” module on the TablePress “Modules” screen.

To use this feature with your tables, choose the desired options on the table’s “Edit” screen. You can drag and drop them between the “Available buttons” and “Shown buttons” section. Double-clicking on a button will move it to the other section as well.

Configuration parameters

To configure this module’s features, you can also use these configuration parameters in the “TablePress Table” block or in the Shortcode that you are using to embed the table:

Module	Slug		Configuration parameter	Name	Description	Type	Default value
Buttons	datatables-buttons		`datatables_buttons`			string	`""` (empty string)

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