Angular Material - SideNav

The <mat-sidenav>, an Angular Directive, is used to create a side navigation bar and main content panel with material design styling and animation capabilities.

• <mat-sidenav-container> - Represents the main container.

• <mat-sidenav-content> - Represents the content panel.

• <mat-sidenav> - Represents the side panel.

In this chapter, we will showcase the configuration required to draw a sidenav 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 { MatFormFieldModule } from '@angular/material/form-field';
import { MatSidenavModule } from '@angular/material/sidenav';

@Component({
   selector: 'app-root',
   imports: [
      FormsModule,
      MatFormFieldModule,
      MatSidenavModule, 
      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-sidenav-container class = "tp-container">
   <mat-sidenav mode = "side" opened>
      <section class = "tp-section">
         <span>File</span>
      </section>
      <section class = "tp-section">
         <span>Edit</span>
      </section>
   </mat-sidenav>
   <mat-sidenav-content>Main content</mat-sidenav-content>
</mat-sidenav-container>

app.css

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

.tp-container {
   position: absolute;
   top: 0;
   bottom: 0;
   left: 0;
   right: 0;
   background: #eee;
}
.tp-section {
   display: flex;
   align-content: center;
   align-items: center;
   height: 60px;
   width:100px;   
}

Result

Verify the result.

Details

• As first, we've created a main container spanning the complete page.

• Then side nav is created using mat-sidenav and content panel using mat-sidenav-content.