Angular Material - Button

The <mat-button>, an Angular Directive, is used to create a button with material styling and animations.

In this chapter, we will showcase the configuration required to draw a button control using Angular Material.

Create Angular Application

Follow the following steps to update the Angular application we created in Angular Material - First Application chapter −

app.ts

Following is the content of the modified app.ts.

import { Component, signal } from '@angular/core';
import { FormsModule, ReactiveFormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
import { MatButtonModule } from '@angular/material/button';
import { MatFormFieldModule } from '@angular/material/form-field';
import { MatIconModule } from '@angular/material/icon';

@Component({
   selector: 'app-root',
   imports: [
      FormsModule,
      MatFormFieldModule,
      MatIconModule,
      MatButtonModule,
      ReactiveFormsModule,
   ],
   templateUrl: './app.html',
   styleUrl: './app.css'
})
export class App {
   protected readonly title = signal('material-app');
}

app.html

Following is the content of the modified HTML host file app.html.

<div class = "example-button-row">
   <button mat-button>Basic</button>
   <button mat-raised-button>Raised</button>
   <button mat-stroked-button>Stroked</button>
   <button mat-flat-button>Flat</button>
   <button mat-icon-button>
      <mat-icon aria-label="Heart">favorite</mat-icon>
   </button>
   <button mat-fab>Fab</button>
   <button mat-mini-fab>Mini</button>
   <a mat-button routerLink = ".">Link</a>
</div>

app.css

Following is the content of the modified CSS file app.css.

.tp-button-row button,
.tp-button-row a {
   margin-right: 8px;
}

Result

Verify the result.

Details

• Here, we've created buttons using various variants of mat-buttons.