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Buttons

import { Button } from 'cx/widgets';

Buttons are commonly used UI elements.

Widget
<Button onClick={() => { MsgBox.alert('Regular')}}>Regular</Button>
<Button pressed>Pressed</Button>
<Button disabled onClick={() => { MsgBox.alert('Disabled') }}>Disabled</Button>
<Button mod="primary" onClick={() => { MsgBox.alert('Primary') }}>Primary</Button>
<Button mod="danger"
    confirm="You clicked the danger button. Are you sure that you want to proceed?"
    onClick={() => {
        MsgBox.alert('Danger')
    }}>
    Danger
</Button>
<Button mod="hollow" icon="pencil">Icon + Text</Button>
<Button mod="hollow" icon="refresh" />
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index.js
// Use Cx based message boxes to display confirmation dialog
import { enableMsgBoxAlerts } from 'cx/widgets';
enableMsgBoxAlerts();
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To enable Cx based message box alerts, call enableMsgBoxAlerts() at startup of your application.

Configuration

PropertyDescriptionType
confirm

Confirmation text or configuration object. See MsgBox.yesNo for more details.

string/object
disabled

Set to true to disable the button.

boolean
enabled

Set to false to disable the button. Do not use both enabled and disabled on the same widget.

boolean
pressed

If true button appears in pressed state. Useful for implementing toggle buttons.

boolean
autoFocus

Set to true to automatically focus the element when mounted.

boolean
baseClass

Base CSS class to be applied to the element. Default is 'button'.

string
class
className

Additional CSS classes to be applied to the element. If an object is provided, all keys with a "truthy" value will be added to the CSS class list.

string/object
dismiss

If set to true, the Button will cause its parent Overlay (if one exists) to close. This, however, can be prevented if onClick explicitly returns false.

boolean
focusOnMouseDown

Determines if button should receive focus on mousedown event. Default is false, which means that focus can be set only using the keyboard Tab key.

boolean
icon

Name of the icon to be put on the left side of the button.

string
innerHtml
html

HTML to be injected into the element.

string
items
children

List of child elements.

array
layout

Define an inner layout.

string/object
mod

Appearance modifier. Cx ships with primary and danger mods.

string/array
outerLayout

Defines the outer layout which wraps the widget.

widget
plainText

Set to true to avoid converting inner strings to templates. Default is false.

boolean
preserveWhitespace
ws

Keep whitespace in text based children. Default is false. See also trimWhitespace.

boolean
putInto
contentFor

Used with outer layouts. Specifies the name of the content placeholder which should render the widget.

string
style

Style object applied to the wrapper div. Used for setting the dimensions of the element.

string/object
submit

Add type="submit" to the button.

boolean
tag

HTML tag to be used. Default is button.

string
text
innerText

Inner text contents.

string
tooltip

Tooltip configuration. For more info see Tooltips.

string/object
trimWhitespace

Remove all whitespace in text based children. Default is true. See also preserveWhitespace.

boolean
vdomKey

Key that will be used as the key when rendering the React component.

string
visible
if

Visibility of the widget. Defaults to true.

boolean