The <mat-input>, an Angular Directive, is used for <input> and <textarea> elements to work under <mat-form-field>.

Following input types can be used within <mat-input>.

• color
• date
• datetime-local
• email
• month
• number
• password
• search
• tel
• text
• time
• url
• week

In this chapter, we will showcase the configuration required to use a mat-input control in Angular Material.

Create Angular Application

Follow the following steps to update the Angular application 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 {MatInputModule} from ''@angular/material''
import {FormsModule, ReactiveFormsModule} from ''@angular/forms'';
@NgModule({
   declarations: [
      AppComponent
   ],
   imports: [
      BrowserModule,
      BrowserAnimationsModule,
      MatInputModule,
      FormsModule,
      ReactiveFormsModule
   ],
   providers: [],
   bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

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

.tp-form {
   min-width: 150px;
   max-width: 500px;
   width: 100%;
}
.tp-full-width {
   width: 100%;
}

Following is the content of the modified ts file app.component.ts.

import { Component } from ''@angular/core'';
import { FormControl } from "@angular/forms";
import {Validators} from ''@angular/forms'';
@Component({
   selector: ''app-root'',
   templateUrl: ''./app.component.html'',
   styleUrls: [''./app.component.css'']
})
export class AppComponent {
   title = ''materialApp'';
   emailFormControl = new FormControl('''', [
      Validators.required,
      Validators.email,
  ]);
}

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

<form class = "tp-form">
   <mat-form-field class = "tp-full-width">
      <input matInput placeholder = "Favorite Food" value = "Pasta">
   </mat-form-field>
   <mat-form-field class = "tp-full-width">
      <textarea matInput placeholder = "Enter your comment"></textarea>
   </mat-form-field>
   <mat-form-field class = "tp-full-width">
      <input matInput placeholder = "Email" [formControl] = "emailFormControl">
      <mat-error *ngIf = "emailFormControl.hasError(''email'') 
         && !emailFormControl.hasError(''required'')">
         Please enter a valid email address
      </mat-error>
      <mat-error *ngIf = "emailFormControl.hasError(''required'')">
         Email is <strong>required</strong>
      </mat-error>
   </mat-form-field>
</form>

Result

Verify the result.

Details

• As first, we”ve created an form field using mat-form-field wrapper.

• Then, a form control is added to the form field using input and matInput attribute.