Angular Material - Chips

The md-chips, an Angular Directive, is used as a special component called Chip and can be used to represent a small set of information for example, a contact, tags etc. A custom template can be used to render the content of a chip. This can be achieved by specifying an md-chip-template element having the custom content as a child of md-chips.

Attributes

The following table lists out the parameters and description of the different attributes of md-chips.

Sr.No Parameter & Description
1

* ng-model

Assignable angular expression to data-bind to.
2

* ng-model

A model to bind the list of items to.
3 * md-transform-chip

An expression of form myFunction($chip) that when called expects one of the following return values −

  • an object representing the $chip input string.

  • undefined to simply add the $chip input string, or.

  • null to prevent the chip from being appended.
4

* md-require-match

If true, and the chips template contains an autocomplete, only allows selection of pre-defined chips (i.e. you cannot add new ones).
5

placeholder

Placeholder text that will be forwarded to the input.
6

secondary-placeholder

Placeholder text that will be forwarded to the input, displayed when there is at least one item in the list.
7

readonly

Disables list manipulation (deleting or adding list items), hiding the input and the delete buttons.
8

md-on-add

An expression which will be called when a chip has been added.
9

md-on-remove

An expression which will be called when a chip has been removed.
10

md-on-select

An expression which will be called when a chip is selected.
11

delete-hint

A string read by screen readers instructing users that pressing the delete key will remove the chip.
12

delete-button-label

A label for the Delete button. Also hidden and read by screen readers.
13

md-separator-keys

An array of key codes used to separate chips.

Example

The following example shows the use of the md-chips directive and also the use of angular chips.

am_chips.htm

Live Demo 
<html lang = "en">
   <head>
      <link rel = "stylesheet"
         href = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angular_material/1.0.0/angular-material.min.css">
      <script src = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.4.8/angular.min.js"></script>
      <script src = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.4.8/angular-animate.min.js"></script>
      <script src = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.4.8/angular-aria.min.js"></script>
      <script src = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.4.8/angular-messages.min.js"></script>
      <script src = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angular_material/1.0.0/angular-material.min.js"></script>
      <link rel = "stylesheet" href = "https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons">
      
      <style>
         .closeButton {
            position: relative;
            height: 24px;
            width: 24px;
            line-height: 30px;
            text-align: center;
            background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
            border-radius: 50%;
            border: none;
            box-shadow: none;
            padding: 0;
            margin: 3px;
            transition: background 0.15s linear;
            display: block; 
         }
      </style>
      
      <script language = "javascript">
         angular
            .module('firstApplication', ['ngMaterial'])
            .controller('chipController', chipController);

         function chipController ($scope) {
            var self = this;
            self.readonly = false;
            
            // Lists of fruit names and Vegetable objects
            self.fruitNames = ['Apple', 'Banana', 'Orange'];
            self.roFruitNames = angular.copy(self.fruitNames);
            self.tags = [];
            
            self.vegObjs = [
               {
                  'name' : 'Broccoli',
                  'type' : 'Brassica'
               },
               {
                  'name' : 'Cabbage',
                  'type' : 'Brassica'
               },
               {
                  'name' : 'Carrot',
                  'type' : 'Umbelliferous'
               }
            ];
            
            self.newVeg = function(chip) {
               return {
                  name: chip,
                  type: 'unknown'
               };
            };
         }          
      </script>      
   </head>
   
   <body ng-app = "firstApplication"> 
      <div ng-controller = "chipController as ctrl" layout = "column" ng-cloak>
         <md-chips ng-model = "ctrl.fruitNames" readonly = "ctrl.readonly">
            </md-chips>
         
         <md-chips class = "custom-chips" ng-model = "ctrl.vegObjs"
            readonly = "ctrl.readonly" md-transform-chip = "ctrl.newVeg($chip)">
            <md-chip-template>
               <span>
                  <strong>[{{$index}}] {{$chip.name}}</strong>
                  <em>({{$chip.type}})</em>
               </span>
            </md-chip-template>
         
            <button md-chip-remove class = "md-primary closeButton">
               <md-icon md-svg-icon = "md-close"></md-icon>
            </button>
         </md-chips>
         
         <br/>
         <md-checkbox ng-model = "ctrl.readonly">Readonly</md-checkbox>
      </div>
   </body>
</html>

Result

Verify the result.

angular_material_widgets.htm
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