Run JavaScript code — runjs • shinyjs

Run arbitrary JavaScript code.

Usage

runjs(code)

Arguments

code: JavaScript code to run.

Note

shinyjs must be initialized with a call to useShinyjs() in the app's ui.

See also

Examples

if (interactive()) {
  library(shiny)
  shinyApp(
    ui = fluidPage(
      useShinyjs(),  # Set up shinyjs
      actionButton("btn", "Click me")
    ),
    server = function(input, output) {
      observeEvent(input$btn, {
        # Run JS code that simply shows a message
        runjs("var today = new Date(); alert(today);")
      })
    }
  )
}