NgMatSearchBar component creates/generates a search icon that expands the search field when clicked.

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How to make use of it:

Installation:

npm install ng-mat-search-bar --save
or yarn
yarn add ng-mat-search-bar

1. Import the module into your app.module.ts as follows:

import { NgMatSearchBarModule } from 'ng-mat-search-bar';

...

@NgModule({
  ...,
  imports: [
    ...,
    NgMatSearchBarModule
  ],
  ...
})

2. You also need to add material icons in web font by adding:

<link
  href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons"
  rel="stylesheet"
/>

<mat-search-bar></mat-search-bar>

Events

You can subscribe to the different events the component is outputting:

• onBlur: fired when the search field loses focus
• onClose: fired when the user closes the search field by clicking the close button
• onEnter: fired when the user presses enter button in search-field
• onFocus: fired when the user focuses the search-field
• onOpen: fired when the searchbar is shown

Methods and properties

It also offers two public methods to open/close the searchbar:

• open(): opens the searchbar
• close(): closes the searchbar

and a property:

• searchVisible: which holds the current visibility state of the search-input

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This superior jQuery/javascript plugin is developed by tommueller. For extra advanced usage, please go to the official website.