I have a custom component that applies bootstrap form group to my form fields. In my component I have below properties:
import { Component, Input, ContentChild } from '@angular/core';
import { NgControl } from '@angular/common';
@Component({
selector: 'form-field',
template: `
<div class="form-group" [ngClass]="{'has-error':(state && !state.valid && state.touched)}">
<label *ngIf="label" [attr.for]="state.name" class="col-sm-3 control-label">{{label}}</label>
<div class="col-sm-9">
<ng-content></ng-content>
<div *ngIf="state && !state.valid && state.errors && state.touched" class="help-block text-danger">
<span *ngIf="state.errors.required">{{label? label:'This field'}} is required</span>
<span *ngIf="state.errors.min">{{label? label:'Value'}} too small</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
`
})
export class FormFieldComponent{
@Input()
label: string;
@ContentChild(NgControl) state;
}
And in my template I use my component like this:
<form [ngFormModel]="form" (ngSubmit)="onSubmit()" novalidate>
<form-field label="First Name">
<input ngControl="firstName" type="text">
</form-field>
</form>
I was wondering is there any way to dynamically set the placeholder text for the control through my component?
I want the label to be set as placeholder of the input field i.e.
This directive is applied to all input elements that have a ngControl
or [ngControl]="..."
attribute. It sets the placeholder
attribute on the element where it is applied.
It is made globally available using
bootstrap(App, [
provide(PLATFORM_DIRECTIVES, {useValue: [InputLabel], multi: true})
])
@Directive({
selector: ['[ngControl]']
})
export class InputLabel {
@Input()
@HostBinding('attr.placeholder')
label;
constructor() {
console.log('InputLabel');
}
}
In the FormField
component this directive is queried for and the label from the input is passed to the directive (in ngOnChanges
or ngAfterContentChecked
- basically the first occurence where label
and state
are available.
@Component({
selector: 'form-field',
providers: [],
template: `
<div>
<ng-content></ng-content>
</div>
`,
directives: []
})
export class FormField {
@Input() label: string;
@ContentChild(InputLabel) state;
ngOnChanges() {
if(this.label && this.state) {
this.state.label = this.label;
}
}
ngAfterContentInit() {
if(this.label && this.state) {
this.state.label = this.label;
}
}
}
This is just to demonstrate how its used:
@Component({
selector: 'my-app',
providers: [],
template: `
<div>
<h2>Hello {{name}}</h2>
<form>
<form-field label="First Name">
<input ngControl="firstName" type="text">
</form-field>
</form>
</div>
`,
directives: [FormField, FORM_DIRECTIVES]
})
export class App {
constructor(fb:FormBuilder) {
this.name = 'Angular2 (Release Candidate!)'
this.form = fb.group({firstName: [""]});
}
}
Plunker example
I choose this approach because I wasn't able to query by something else (NgControl
, ...) and get a reference to the input element.
It's not necessary to provide the directive this way. It can also be provided like any other custom directive by adding it to directives: [InputLabel]
on the @Component()
decorator where it is used.
You could bind your label to "placeholder"
form-field label="First Name">
<input ngControl="firstName" type="text" [attr.placeholder]="label">
</form-field>