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Angular Material - DatePicker

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The <mat-datepicker>, an Angular Directive, is used to create a datepicker control using which date can be selected from a calendar or can be input directly using input box.

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

Create Angular Application

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

Step	Description
1	Create a project with a name material-app as explained in the Angular Material - First Application chapter.
2	Modify app.ts, and app.html as explained below. Keep rest of the files unchanged.
3	Compile and run the application to verify the result of the implemented logic.

app.ts

Following is the content of the modified app.ts.

import { Component, model, signal } from '@angular/core';
import { MatFormFieldModule } from '@angular/material/form-field';
import { FormsModule, ReactiveFormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
import { MatInputModule } from '@angular/material/input';
import { MatDatepickerModule } from '@angular/material/datepicker';
import { MatNativeDateModule } from '@angular/material/core';

@Component({
   selector: 'app-root',
   imports: [
      FormsModule,
      MatFormFieldModule,
      MatInputModule,
      MatDatepickerModule,
      MatNativeDateModule,
      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.

<mat-form-field>
   <input matInput [matDatepicker] = "picker" placeholder = "Choose a date">
   <mat-datepicker-toggle matSuffix [for] = "picker"></mat-datepicker-toggle>
   <mat-datepicker #picker></mat-datepicker>
</mat-form-field>

Result

Verify the result.

Details

As first, we've created an input box and bind an datepicker named picker using [matDatepicker] attribute.
Then, we've created an datepicker named picker using mat-datepicker tag.

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