Angular Material 7 - DatePicker

The <mat-datepicker>, an Angular Directive, is used to create a datepicker control using which date can be selected from a calendar or can be input directly using input box.

In this chapter, we will showcase the configuration required to draw a datepicker control using Angular Material.

Create Angular Apppcation

Follow the following steps to update the Angular apppcation we created in Angular 6 - Project Setup chapter −

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 {MatDatepickerModule, MatInputModule,MatNativeDateModule} from  @angular/material ;
import {FormsModule, ReactiveFormsModule} from  @angular/forms ;
@NgModule({
   declarations: [
      AppComponent
   ],
   imports: [
      BrowserModule,
      BrowserAnimationsModule,
      MatDatepickerModule, MatInputModule,MatNativeDateModule,
      FormsModule,
      ReactiveFormsModule
   ],
   providers: [],
   bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

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

<mat-form-field>
   <input matInput [matDatepicker] = "picker" placeholder = "Choose a date">
   <mat-datepicker-toggle matSuffix [for] = "picker"></mat-datepicker-toggle>
   <mat-datepicker #picker></mat-datepicker>
</mat-form-field>

Result

Verify the result.

Details

As first, we ve created an input box and bind an datepicker named picker using [matDatepicker] attribute.

Then, we ve created an datepicker named picker using mat-datepicker tag.