Angular Material 7 – SideNav
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The <mat-sidenav>, an Angular Directive, is used to create a side navigation bar and main content panel with material design styling and animation capabilities.
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<mat-sidenav-container> – Represents the main container.
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<mat-sidenav-content> – Represents the content panel.
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<mat-sidenav> – Represents the side panel.
In this chapter, we will showcase the configuration required to draw a sidenav control using Angular Material.
Create Angular Application
Follow the following steps to update the Angular application we created in Angular 6 – Project Setup chapter −
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1 | Create a project with a name materialApp as explained in the Angular 6 – Project Setup chapter. |
2 | Modify app.module.ts, app.component.ts, app.component.css and app.component.html as explained below. Keep rest of the files unchanged. |
3 | Compile and run the application to verify the result of the implemented logic. |
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 {MatSidenavModule} from ''@angular/material'' import {FormsModule, ReactiveFormsModule} from ''@angular/forms''; @NgModule({ declarations: [ AppComponent ], imports: [ BrowserModule, BrowserAnimationsModule, MatSidenavModule, FormsModule, ReactiveFormsModule ], providers: [], bootstrap: [AppComponent] }) export class AppModule { }
Following is the content of the modified CSS file app.component.css.
.tp-container { position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0; right: 0; background: #eee; } .tp-section { display: flex; align-content: center; align-items: center; height: 60px; width:100px; }
Following is the content of the modified HTML host file app.component.html.
<mat-sidenav-container class = "tp-container"> <mat-sidenav mode = "side" opened> <section class = "tp-section"> <span>File</span> </section> <section class = "tp-section"> <span>Edit</span> </section> </mat-sidenav> <mat-sidenav-content>Main content</mat-sidenav-content> </mat-sidenav-container>
Result
Verify the result.
Details
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As first, we”ve created a main container spanning the complete page.
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Then side nav is created using mat-sidenav and content panel using mat-sidenav-content.
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