Angular Material 7 - Tabs

The <mat-tab-group>, an Angular Directive, is used to create a tabbed layout.

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

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

<mat-tab-group>
   <mat-tab label = "A"> Apple </mat-tab>
   <mat-tab label = "B"> Banana </mat-tab>
   <mat-tab label = "C"> Carrot </mat-tab>
</mat-tab-group>

Result

Verify the result.

Details

As first, we ve created tabs using mat-tab-group.

Then, we ve added content using mat-tab where each mat-tab represents a different tab.