updateTabItems: Change the selected tab on the client

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Change the selected tab on the client

Description

This function controls the active tab of tabItems() from the server. It behaves just like shiny::updateTabsetPanel().

Usage

updateTabItems(...)

Arguments

...

Arguments passed on to shiny::updateTabsetPanel session The session object passed to function given to shinyServer. Default is getDefaultReactiveDomain(). inputId The id of the tabsetPanel, navlistPanel, or navbarPage object. selected The value (or, if none was supplied, the title) of the tab that should be selected by default. If NULL, the first tab will be selected.

Examples

## Only run this example in interactive R sessions
if (interactive()) {

ui <- dashboardPage(
  dashboardHeader(title = "Simple tabs"),
  dashboardSidebar(
    sidebarMenu(
      id = "tabs",
      menuItem("Dashboard", tabName = "dashboard", icon = icon("dashboard")),
      menuItem("Widgets", tabName = "widgets", icon = icon("th"))
    ),
    actionButton('switchtab', 'Switch tab')
  ),
  dashboardBody(
    tabItems(
      tabItem(tabName = "dashboard",
        h2("Dashboard tab content")
      ),
      tabItem(tabName = "widgets",
        h2("Widgets tab content")
      )
    )
  )
)

server <- function(input, output, session) {
  observeEvent(input$switchtab, {
    newtab <- switch(input$tabs,
      "dashboard" = "widgets",
      "widgets" = "dashboard"
    )
    updateTabItems(session, "tabs", newtab)
  })
}

shinyApp(ui, server)
}

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