How to render empty grid table in Yii?

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I am working on the Yii2 project. In this, on page load, I want to display an empty grid table. Data should get loaded to the Kartik GridView only after button click. I am able to display the grid view table with data on button click, but not able to display the empty grid table initially. To display data, I have added code as follows:

use kartik\grid\GridView;
<?=
        GridView::widget([
            'id' => 'crud-datatable',
            'dataProvider' => $dataProvider,
            'filterModel' => $searchModel,
            'pjax' => false,
            'floatHeader'=>true,
            'floatOverflowContainer'=>true,
        ])
        ?>

I was reading about renderEmpty() but don't know how to use this also I tried sending NULL as a dataprovider but was creating the issue. Is there any other GridView property that we can use to display an empty table initially?

One way to do that, not sure it is good for you or not. Before click you can pass ```$dataProvider`` array ```empty``` from the controller and after a click on button, you can pass an original array as you wish. — HP371, Mar 02 '20 at 09:24
It shows error when you pass dataprovider as array, because gridview tries to count records from object. So niter array, empty object or '' works here for dataprovider — AmarjaPatil4, Mar 02 '20 at 09:40
I mean to say you need to create custom $dataprovider with empty array.Ref : https://stackoverflow.com/a/28452101/4781696 — HP371, Mar 02 '20 at 09:44
Does this answer your question? [Using Yii2 with array of data and a Gridview with sorting and filter](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28428492/using-yii2-with-array-of-data-and-a-gridview-with-sorting-and-filter) — Muhammad Omer Aslam, Mar 02 '20 at 20:00
@MuhammadOmerAslam, as I don't have much knowledge of Yii, this link helped me partially. I will post my answer. — AmarjaPatil4, Mar 03 '20 at 04:25

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 03 '20 at 04:30

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To solve this, I have passed object of ArrayDataProvider as a value of dataProvider like,

$dataProvider = new \yii\data\ArrayDataProvider();

answered Mar 03 '20 at 04:30

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