The angular material form field is the wrapper for the other form controls elements such as input text area select radio button checkbox etc.
Mat input password field.
Mat form field is used with input matinput as given below.
In this chapter we will showcase the configuration required to use a mat input control in angular material.
Using mat form field input matinput and textarea matinput are used inside mat form field.
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The mat input an angular directive is used for input and textarea elements to work under mat form field.
These fields initially appear as single line fields which is useful for compact layouts that need to be able to accomodate large amounts of text.
We are going to use angular cli to create our directive.
The angular material form field using mat form field tag.
We want to toggle the visibility of the password field.
Overflow text causes the text field to expand shifting screen elements downward and text wraps onto a new line.
It applies common underline floating label and hint messages etc.
Use the mat icon and toggle the hide property which will alter the fields type and icon.
Ui component infrastructure and material design components for mobile and desktop angular web applications.
Following angular component can be used within mat form field.
Multi line fields multi line text fields show all user input at once.
Also advanced the style for the components that wrapped by this form field.
After building our directive we can simply make any input field have a hide show button by the side to toggle the type of the input form element by adding an attribute like so input type password apppassword create our angular app with angular cli ng new passwordapp setup our directive.