Angular Material 7 - Menu

The <mat-menu>, an Angular Directive, is used to create a menu and attach it with a control with material design stypng and animation capabipties.

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

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

<button mat-button [matMenuTriggerFor] = "menu">File</button>
<mat-menu #menu = "matMenu">
   <button mat-menu-item>New</button>
   <button mat-menu-item>Open</button>
   <button mat-menu-item [matMenuTriggerFor] = "recent">Recent</button>
</mat-menu>
<mat-menu #recent = "matMenu">
   <button mat-menu-item>File 1</button>
   <button mat-menu-item>File 2</button>
</mat-menu>

Result

Verify the result.

Details

As first, we ve created two menus using mat-menu and bind them to buttons using matMenuTriggerFor.

matMenuTriggerFor is passed the menu identifier to attach the menus.