Angular Material - Input

The <mat-input>, an Angular Directive, is used for <input> and <textarea> elements to work under <mat-form-field>.

Following input types can be used within <mat-input>.

• color
• date
• datetime-local
• email
• month
• number
• password
• search
• tel
• text
• time
• url
• week

In this chapter, we will showcase the configuration required to use a mat-input control in 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 { MatFormFieldModule } from '@angular/material/form-field';
import { FormControl, FormsModule, ReactiveFormsModule, Validators } from '@angular/forms';
import { MatInputModule } from '@angular/material/input';
import { MatOptionModule } from '@angular/material/core';
import { MatSelectModule } from '@angular/material/select';
import { MatIconModule } from '@angular/material/icon';

@Component({
   selector: 'app-root',
   imports: [
      FormsModule,
      MatFormFieldModule,
      MatInputModule,
      MatOptionModule, 
      MatSelectModule, 
      MatIconModule,
      ReactiveFormsModule,
   ],
   templateUrl: './app.html',
   styleUrl: './app.css'
})
export class App {
   protected readonly title = signal('material-app');
   emailFormControl = new FormControl('', [
      Validators.required,
      Validators.email,
   ]);
}

app.html

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

<form class = "tp-form">
   <mat-form-field class = "tp-full-width">
      <input matInput placeholder = "Favorite Food" value = "Pasta">
   </mat-form-field>
   <mat-form-field class = "tp-full-width">
      <textarea matInput placeholder = "Enter your comment"></textarea>
   </mat-form-field>
   <mat-form-field class = "tp-full-width">
      <mat-label>Enter your email</mat-label>
      <input matInput placeholder = "Email" [formControl] = "emailFormControl">
      @if (emailFormControl.hasError('email') && !emailFormControl.hasError('required')) {
         <mat-error>Please enter a valid email address</mat-error>
      }
      @if(emailFormControl.hasError('required')){
         <mat-error>Email is <strong>required</strong></mat-error>
      }
   </mat-form-field>
</form>

app.css

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

.tp-form {
   min-width: 150px;
   max-width: 500px;
   width: 100%;
}
.tp-full-width {
   width: 100%;
}

Result

Verify the result.

Details

• As first, we've created an form field using mat-form-field wrapper.

• Then, a form control is added to the form field using input and matInput attribute.