Angular Material 7 - Chips

The <mat-chip-pst>, an Angular Directive, is used to a pst of values as chips.

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

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

<mat-chip-pst>
   <mat-chip>One</mat-chip>
   <mat-chip>Two</mat-chip>
   <mat-chip color = "primary" selected>Tree</mat-chip>
   <mat-chip color = "accent" selected>Four</mat-chip>
</mat-chip-pst>

Result

Verify the result.

Details

As first, we ve created chip pst using mat-chip-pst.

Then, we ve added chips to each chip pst using mat-chip.