Angular Material 7 - Tooltip

The <MatTooltip>, an Angular Directive, is used to show a material styled tooltip.

In this chapter, we will showcase the configuration required to show a tooltip using Angular Material.

Following is the content of the modified module descriptor app.module.ts.

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import {BrowserAnimationsModule} from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';
import {MatButtonModule,MatTooltipModule} from '@angular/material'
import {FormsModule, ReactiveFormsModule} from '@angular/forms';
@NgModule({
   declarations: [
      AppComponent
   ],
   imports: [
      BrowserModule,
      BrowserAnimationsModule,
      MatButtonModule,MatTooltipModule,
      FormsModule,
      ReactiveFormsModule
   ],
   providers: [],
   bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

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

<button mat-raised-button
   matTooltip = "Sample Tooltip"
   aria-label = "Sample Tooltip">
   Click Me!
</button>

Result

Verify the result.

Tooltip

Details

  • Here, we've created a button using mat-button on hover, we'll show a tooltip.
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