Angular Material 7 - Badge

The <mat-badge>, an Angular Directive, is used to create a badges which is a small status descriptor for UI elements. A badge typically carries a number or other short set of characters, that appears in proximity to another UI element.

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

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

<p><span matBadge = "4" matBadgeOverlap = "false">Mail</span></p>
<p>
   <button mat-raised-button color = "primary"
      matBadge = "8" matBadgePosition = "before" matBadgeColor = "accent">
      Action
   </button>
</p>
<p><mat-icon matBadge = "15" matBadgeColor = "warn">home</mat-icon></p>

Result

Verify the result.

Details

As first, we ve created a span, a button and a icon.

Then, we ve added badges to each element using mat-badge attribute.