Angular Material 7 - Button

The <mat-button>, an Angular Directive, is used to create a button with material stypng and animations.

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

Following is the content of the modified CSS file app.component.css.

.tp-button-row button,
.tp-button-row a {
   margin-right: 8px;
}

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

<span class = "example-button-row">
   <button mat-button>Basic</button>
   <button mat-raised-button>Raised</button>
   <button mat-stroked-button>Stroked</button>
   <button mat-flat-button>Flat</button>
   <button mat-icon-button>
      <mat-icon aria-label="Heart">favorite</mat-icon>
   </button>
   <button mat-fab>Fab</button>
   <button mat-mini-fab>Mini</button>
   <a mat-button routerLink = ".">Link</a>
</span>

Result

Verify the result.

Details

Here, we ve created buttons using various variants of mat-buttons.