Float Label Mat Form Field

In this angular material series we will show you how to use angular material form controls form field and input with the working examples.

Float label mat form field.

See the following example where a form is created. Have a look at the code and online demo in the following section where a form is created with floating labels. A demo of creating floating labels as using css float property. In the first step we were setting form field appearance to individual form field components.

To indicate that a field is required display an asterisk next to the label text and mention near the form that asterisks indicate required fields. The input textarea select etc. Setting the default appearance. If most fields are required indicate optional fields by displaying the word optional in parentheses next to the label text.

Our floating label script will use a module pattern handle our use cases. The tradeoff is when manually setting your caret with a click the padding changes after focus but before the click sets the caret so it s a bit unpredictable. We will need to build up our code so multiple input fields will use a floating label. Finally our input field also only works with 1 input field on the page.

Mat form field is a component used to wrap several angular material components and apply common styles such as underline floating label and hint messages. The text field labels float upwards as any textbox gets focused by pressing the mouse click or tab key from the keyboard. In this document form field refers to the wrapper component mat form field and form field control refers to the component that the mat form field is wrapping e g. We will capture the input fields we want to apply the float label.

Angular email validation example. This can be a lot of work for instance if you wanted to switch from one appearance to another for all your material form fields. If some fields are required indicate all required ones. An angular material form control is an essential component especially when working with the data.

To validate the email we have to use a pattern type validator.