The mat form field an angular directive is used to create a wrapper over angular components and is used to apply text styles like underline bold hints etc.
Mat input password field.
After building our directive we can simply make any input field have a hide show button by the side to toggle the type of the input form element by adding an attribute like so input type password apppassword create our angular app with angular cli ng new passwordapp setup our directive.
Mat form field is used with input matinput as given below.
We want to toggle the visibility of the password field.
Following input types can be used within mat input.
The angular material form field is the wrapper for the other form controls elements such as input text area select radio button checkbox etc.
Overflow text causes the text field to expand shifting screen elements downward and text wraps onto a new line.
The angular material form field using mat form field tag.
In this chapter we will showcase the configuration required to use a mat input control in angular material.
Using mat form field input matinput and textarea matinput are used inside mat form field.
These fields initially appear as single line fields which is useful for compact layouts that need to be able to accomodate large amounts of text.
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Following angular component can be used within mat form field.
We are going to use angular cli to create our directive.
The mat input an angular directive is used for input and textarea elements to work under mat form field.
Also advanced the style for the components that wrapped by this form field.
Multi line fields multi line text fields show all user input at once.
Use the mat icon and toggle the hide property which will alter the fields type and icon.