Enable or disable toolbar item in EJ2 JavaScript Toolbar control

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The disabled property of the Toolbar item is used to enable/disable the item by setting false/true value to the property. In the following code example initially paste action will be disabled. On clicking the cut or copy button, the paste button will be enabled.

//Initialize Toolbar component
var toolbar = new ej.navigations.Toolbar({
    width: 600,   
     items: [
            {
                prefixIcon: 'e-cut-icon tb-icons', tooltipText: 'Cut', click: onClick },
            {
                prefixIcon: 'e-copy-icon tb-icons', tooltipText: 'Copy', click: onClick },
            {
                prefixIcon: 'e-paste-icon tb-icons', tooltipText: 'Paste', disabled: true },
            {
                type: 'Separator' },
            {
                prefixIcon: 'e-bold-icon tb-icons', tooltipText: 'Bold' },
            {
                prefixIcon: 'e-underline-icon tb-icons', tooltipText: 'Underline'},
            {
                prefixIcon: 'e-italic-icon tb-icons', tooltipText: 'Italic' },
            {
                prefixIcon: 'e-color-icon tb-icons', tooltipText: 'Color-Picker' },
            {
                type: 'Separator' },
            {
                prefixIcon: 'e-alignleft-icon tb-icons', tooltipText: 'Align-Left' },
            {
                prefixIcon: 'e-alignjustify-icon tb-icons', tooltipText: 'Align-Justify'},
            {
                prefixIcon: 'e-alignright-icon tb-icons', tooltipText: 'Align-Right' },
            {
                prefixIcon: 'e-aligncenter-icon tb-icons', tooltipText: 'Align-Center' },
            {
                type: 'Separator' },
            {
                prefixIcon: 'e-bullets-icon tb-icons', tooltipText: 'Bullets'},
            {
                prefixIcon: 'e-numbering-icon tb-icons', tooltipText: 'Numbering' },
            {
                type: 'Separator' },
            {
                prefixIcon: 'e-ascending-icon tb-icons', tooltipText: 'Sort A - Z' },
            {
                prefixIcon: 'e-descending-icon tb-icons', tooltipText: 'Sort Z - A' },
            {
                type: 'Separator' },
            {
                prefixIcon: 'e-upload-icon tb-icons', tooltipText: 'Upload' },
            {
                prefixIcon: 'e-download-icon tb-icons', tooltipText: 'Download' },
            {
                type: 'Separator' },
            {
                prefixIcon: 'e-indent-icon tb-icons', tooltipText: 'Text Indent' },
            {
                prefixIcon: 'e-outdent-icon tb-icons', tooltipText: 'Text Outdent' },
            {
                type: 'Separator' },
            {
                prefixIcon: 'e-clear-icon tb-icons', tooltipText: 'Clear' },
            {
                prefixIcon: 'e-reload-icon tb-icons', tooltipText: 'Reload' },
            {
                prefixIcon: 'e-export-icon tb-icons', tooltipText: 'Export'
            }]
});

//Render initialized Toolbar component
toolbar.appendTo('#element');

function onClick() {
  toolbar.items[2].disabled = false;
}
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
    <title>Essential JS 2 Toolbar</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript Toolbar Controls">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://ej2.syncfusion.com/angular/demos/src/toolbar/toolbar.component.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    
    <div id="container">
        <div id="element"></div>
        <br>
    </div>


<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
  ele.style.visibility = "visible";
}   
      </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>