# Class: AuWidgetButton

A widget that represents a button.

For details, you can refer to the [Button widget](https://customerscanvas.com/dev/editors/ui-framework/widgets/button.html) topic.

The following example illustrates how you can define a button for adding logs to the console.
```
{
  "widgets": [
   {
     "type": "button",
     "name": "console-log",
     "params": {
       "text": "hello",
       "classStyle": "success",
       "onClick": "{{#function console.log('Hello world!');}}",
       "enabled": true,
       "visible": true
     }
   }
 ]
}
```

## Hierarchy

  ↳ [AuBaseWidget](aubasewidget.md)

  ↳ **AuWidgetButton**

## Implements

* [IWidget](../interfaces/iwidget.md)

## Index

### Properties

* [params](auwidgetbutton.md#params)

### Methods

* [checkInitDependenciesWidgets](auwidgetbutton.md#checkinitdependencieswidgets)
* [resetPreloaderState](auwidgetbutton.md#resetpreloaderstate)
* [showPreloader](auwidgetbutton.md#showpreloader)
* [showToast](auwidgetbutton.md#showtoast)

## Properties

###  params

• **params**: *[IButtonConfig](../interfaces/ibuttonconfig.md)*

*Implementation of [IWidget](../interfaces/iwidget.md).[params](../interfaces/iwidget.md#optional-params)*

*Overrides [AuBaseWidget](aubasewidget.md).[params](aubasewidget.md#params)*

Button properties.

## Methods

###  checkInitDependenciesWidgets

▸ **checkInitDependenciesWidgets**(): *string[]*

*Inherited from [AuBaseWidget](aubasewidget.md).[checkInitDependenciesWidgets](aubasewidget.md#checkinitdependencieswidgets)*

Returns an array of widget names, due to which the current widget cannot receive parameters.

**Returns:** *string[]*

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###  resetPreloaderState

▸ **resetPreloaderState**(): *void*

*Inherited from [AuBaseWidget](aubasewidget.md).[resetPreloaderState](aubasewidget.md#resetpreloaderstate)*

**Returns:** *void*

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###  showPreloader

▸ **showPreloader**(`isPreload`: boolean, `message`: string | string[], `timeout`: number): *void*

*Inherited from [AuBaseWidget](aubasewidget.md).[showPreloader](aubasewidget.md#showpreloader)*

Shows a preloader.

```
"onClick": [
  "{{#function main.showPreloader(true, 'Creating print files...')}}",
  "{{#function $['editor'].getHiResImages(800,800)}}",
  "{{#function main.showPreloader(false)}}"
]
```

**Parameters:**

Name | Type | Default | Description |
------ | ------ | ------ | ------ |
`isPreload` | boolean | - | If `true`, enables the preloader. |
`message` | string | string[] |  [""] | A text message that appears next to the preloader.  |
`timeout` | number | 5 | - |

**Returns:** *void*

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###  showToast

▸ **showToast**(`data?`: string, `duration?`: number): *void*

*Inherited from [AuBaseWidget](aubasewidget.md).[showToast](aubasewidget.md#showtoast)*

Shows a toast.

```
return editor.loadUserInfo(data)
    .catch(err => {
        this.widget.showToast("Error: Invalid data");
        console.log(err);
    });
```

**Parameters:**

Name | Type | Description |
------ | ------ | ------ |
`data?` | string | A string message to display in the toast. |
`duration?` | number | Defines how long to show the toast for.  |

**Returns:** *void*