Using mat form field input matinput and textarea matinput are used inside mat form field.
Mat input password field.
Following input types can be used within mat input.
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.
The angular material form field using mat form field tag.
Mat form field is used with input matinput as given below.
The mat input an angular directive is used for input and textarea elements to work under mat form field.
We are going to use angular cli to create our directive.
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.
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.
Following angular component can be used within mat form field.
Use the mat icon and toggle the hide property which will alter the fields type and icon.
In this chapter we will showcase the configuration required to use a mat input control in angular material.
It applies common underline floating label and hint messages etc.
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The angular material form field is the wrapper for the other form controls elements such as input text area select radio button checkbox etc.
Input matnativecontrol textarea matnativecontrol select matnativecontrol mat select mat chip list.
Overflow text causes the text field to expand shifting screen elements downward and text wraps onto a new line.
We want to toggle the visibility of the password field.