Angular Material 7 - Select

The <mat-select>, an Angular Directive, is used for <select> for enhance material design based stypng..

In this chapter, we will showcase the configuration required to draw a select 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 {MatSelectModule} from  @angular/material 
import {FormsModule, ReactiveFormsModule} from  @angular/forms ;
@NgModule({
   declarations: [
      AppComponent
   ],
   imports: [
      BrowserModule,
      BrowserAnimationsModule,
      MatSelectModule,
      FormsModule,
      ReactiveFormsModule
   ],
   providers: [],
   bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

Following is the content of the modified ts file app.component.ts.

import { Component } from  @angular/core ;
import { FormControl } from "@angular/forms";
export interface Food {
  value: string;
  display: string;
}
@Component({
   selector:  app-root ,
   templateUrl:  ./app.component.html ,
   styleUrls: [ ./app.component.css ]
})
export class AppComponent {
   title =  materialApp ; 
   selectedValue: string; 
   foods: Food[] = [
      {value:  steak , display:  Steak },
      {value:  pizza , display:  Pizza },
      {value:  tacos , display:  Tacos }
   ];
}

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

<form>
   <h4>mat-select</h4>
   <mat-form-field>
      <mat-select placeholder = "Favorite food" 
         [(ngModel)] = "selectedValue" name = "food">
         <mat-option *ngFor = "let food of foods" 
            [value] = "food.value">
            {{food.display}}
         </mat-option>
      </mat-select>
   </mat-form-field>
   <p> Selected food: {{selectedValue}} </p> 
</form>

Result

Verify the result.

Details

As first, we ve created a select using mat-select bound with ngModel.

Then, we ve added options using mat-option.