toolbar_input_button: Add a toolbar input button

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Add a toolbar input button

Description

A button designed to fit well in small places such as in a toolbar().

Usage

toolbar_input_button(
  id,
  label,
  icon = NULL,
  show_label = is.null(icon),
  tooltip = !show_label,
  ...,
  disabled = FALSE,
  border = FALSE
)

update_toolbar_input_button(
  id,
  label = NULL,
  show_label = NULL,
  icon = NULL,
  disabled = NULL,
  session = get_current_session()
)

Arguments

id	The input ID.
label	The input label. By default, label is not shown but is used by tooltip. Set show_label = TRUE to show the label (see tooltip for details on how this affects the tooltip behavior).
icon	An icon. If provided without show_label = TRUE, only the icon will be visible.
show_label	Whether to show the label text. If FALSE (the default), only the icon is shown (if provided). If TRUE, the label text is shown alongside the icon. Note that show_label can be dynamically updated using update_toolbar_input_button().
tooltip	Tooltip text to display when hovering over the input. Can be: TRUE (default when show_label = FALSE) - shows a tooltip with the label text FALSE (default when show_label = TRUE) - no tooltip A character string - shows a tooltip with custom text Defaults to !show_label. When a tooltip is created, it will have an ID of "{id}_tooltip" which can be used to update the tooltip text dynamically via update_tooltip().
...	Additional attributes to pass to the button.
disabled	If TRUE, the button will not be clickable. Use update_toolbar_input_button() to dynamically enable/disable the button.
border	Whether to show a border around the button.
session	A Shiny session object (the default should almost always be used).

Value

Returns a button suitable for use in a toolbar.

Functions

• toolbar_input_button(): Create a toolbar button.

• update_toolbar_input_button(): Update a toolbar button.

Updating toolbar buttons

You can dynamically update the appearance and enabled/disabled state of a toolbar button on the client side using update_toolbar_input_button(). This function works similarly to shiny::updateActionButton().

Note that you cannot change the tooltip or border parameters after the button has been created, as these affect the button's structure and ARIA attributes. Please use update_tooltip() to update the text of the tooltip if one is present.

For example:

library(shiny)
library(bslib)

ui <- page_fluid(
  card(
    card_header(
      "Toolbar Demo",
      toolbar(
        align = "right",
        toolbar_input_button("btn", label = "Click me", icon = icon("play")),
        toolbar_input_button(
          "task",
          label = "Do a Task",
          icon = icon("play-circle"),
          show_label = TRUE
        )
      )
    ),
    card_body(
      verbatimTextOutput("count")
    )
  )
)

server <- function(input, output, session) {
  output$count <- renderPrint({
    input$btn
  })

  observeEvent(input$btn, {
    update_toolbar_input_button(
      "btn",
      label = "Clicked!",
      icon = icon("check")
    )
    # Update the tooltip text
    update_tooltip("btn_tooltip", "Button was clicked!")
  })

  # Handle task button - toggle between states
  observeEvent(input$task, {
    if (input$task %% 2 == 1) {
      # Show task is in progress
      update_toolbar_input_button(
        "task",
        label = "Task Running...",
        icon = icon("spinner")
      )
    } else {
      # Reset to original
      update_toolbar_input_button(
        "task",
        label = "Do a Task",
        icon = icon("play-circle"),
        session = session
      )
    }
  })
}

shinyApp(ui, server)

See Also

Other toolbar components: toolbar(), toolbar_divider(), toolbar_input_select()

Examples

# Basic toolbar button
toolbar(
  toolbar_input_button(id = "view", icon = icon("eye"), label = "View"),
  toolbar_input_button(id = "save", icon = icon("save"), label = "Save")
)

bslib documentation built on May 16, 2026, 9:06 a.m.