Float Label Mat Form Field

In the first step we were setting form field appearance to individual form field components.

Float label mat form field.

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 capture the input fields we want to apply the float label. Read more in the official documentation. The input textarea select etc.

A demo of creating floating labels as using css float property. Finally our input field also only works with 1 input field on the page. In this angular material series we will show you how to use angular material form controls form field and input with the working examples. 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.

Our floating label script will use a module pattern handle our use cases. Have a look at the code and online demo in the following section where a form is created with floating labels. The text field labels float upwards as any textbox gets focused by pressing the mouse click or tab key from the keyboard. Setting the default appearance.

To validate the email we have to use a pattern type validator. 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. 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. For the labels on the right a padding right on the input focus and textarea focus greater than or equal to the width of the label 40 in the demo keeps your input from going underneath the label as you type.

Mat form field is a component used to wrap several angular material components and apply common text field styles such as the underline floating label and hint messages. We will need to build up our code so multiple input fields will use a floating label. If some fields are required indicate all required ones. See the following example where a form is created.

Angular email validation example.