Laravel 8 Export Buttons In Datatables Example

In this tutorial I will give you example of laravel 8 export buttons in datatables example. If you want to export data in excel, pdf or csv file format in datatable then you have to add export button in your datatable. So, here I am show you how to add export button in datatable using jquery or how to enable export button in datatable.

Datatables provides datatable buttons plugin for add export buttons in datatable using jquery. After adding of export button, you can easily export data to CSV, Excel and PDF file also you can copy all datatable data in html format.

So, let's see how to add export button in datatable using jquery.

You need to add below javascript file cdn to add export button in datatable.

https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.js
https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.21/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js
https://cdn.datatables.net/buttons/1.6.2/js/dataTables.buttons.min.js
https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jszip/3.1.3/jszip.min.js
https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/pdfmake/0.1.53/pdfmake.min.js
https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/pdfmake/0.1.53/vfs_fonts.js
https://cdn.datatables.net/buttons/1.6.2/js/buttons.html5.min.js

And also add following CSS library files are loaded for use in this example to provide the styling of the table.

https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.21/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css
https://cdn.datatables.net/buttons/1.6.2/css/buttons.dataTables.min.css

Add below javascript code in your script tag.

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#export_example').DataTable( {
        dom: 'Bfrtip',
        buttons: [
            'copyHtml5',
            'excelHtml5',
            'csvHtml5',
            'pdfHtml5'
        ]
    } );
} );