Angular Material - Divider

The <mat-divider>, an Angular Directive, is used to create a divider with material design styling and animation capabilities. It provide a separator between two items.

In this chapter, we will showcase the configuration required to draw a divider 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 { MatCheckboxModule } from '@angular/material/checkbox';
import { MatDividerModule } from '@angular/material/divider';
import { MatFormFieldModule } from '@angular/material/form-field';
import { MatListModule } from '@angular/material/list';

@Component({
   selector: 'app-root',
   imports: [
      FormsModule,
      MatFormFieldModule,
      MatDividerModule, 
      MatListModule, 
      MatButtonModule, 
      MatCheckboxModule,
      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-list>
   <mat-list-item>Apple</mat-list-item>
   <mat-divider></mat-divider>
   <mat-list-item>Orange</mat-list-item>
   <mat-divider></mat-divider>
   <mat-list-item>Banana</mat-list-item>
</mat-list>

Result

Verify the result.

Details

• As first, we've created a list using mat-list.
• Then, we've added dividers between list items using mat-divider.