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Angular Material - Grid List

Quiz

The <mat-grid-list>, an Angular Directive, is used to create a two dimensional view arranging cells into grid based layout.

In this chapter, we will showcase the configuration required to draw a grid list 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,app.css 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, signal } from '@angular/core';
import { FormsModule, ReactiveFormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
import { MatFormFieldModule } from '@angular/material/form-field';
import { MatGridListModule } from '@angular/material/grid-list';

@Component({
   selector: 'app-root',
   imports: [
      FormsModule,
      MatFormFieldModule,
      MatGridListModule,
      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-grid-list cols = "4" rowHeight = "100px">
   <mat-grid-tile 
   [colspan] = "3"
   [rowspan] = "1">1
   </mat-grid-tile>
   <mat-grid-tile 
   [colspan] = "1"
   [rowspan] = "2">2
   </mat-grid-tile>
   <mat-grid-tile 
   [colspan] = "1"
   [rowspan] = "1">3
   </mat-grid-tile>
   <mat-grid-tile 
   [colspan] = "2"
   [rowspan] = "1">4
   </mat-grid-tile>
</mat-grid-list>

app.css

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

mat-grid-tile {
   background: lightblue;
}

Result

Verify the result.

Details

As first, we've created grid list using mat-grid-list.
Then, we've added content using mat-grid-tile.

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