field().enable()

Enable a field, allowing user input.
Please note - this property requires the Editor extension for DataTables.

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Description

It can at times be useful to enable and disable a field, allowing and preventing the user from modifying the field's value. This method provides the ability to enable a field control for user input.

This is the inverse of the field().disable() method, which will disable a previously enabled field.

Note that the enable() method also provides the ability to enable a field, and extends that capability to being able to enable multiple fields in a single call. As such, these two methods can often be used interchangeably. The key difference is in the return value - this method will return a DataTables.Editor.Field instance, while the enable() method returns a DataTables.Editor instance. This can effect how you chain methods if you are using the returned value for chaining.