I want to use Angular Material Datepicker to get a date into my page.
I use this code, but cannot figure out how to access the selected value correctly.
<md-input-container>
<input mdInput [mdDatepicker]="myDatepicker">
<button mdSuffix [mdDatepickerToggle]="myDatepicker"></button>
</md-input-container>
<md-datepicker #myDatepicker></md-datepicker>
I tried the [value]
field in input but how can I get the date to send it to my backend?
Thanks.
You can access the datepicker value by using ngModel
. The ngModel
needs to be in the input
tag. See the Plunker demo.
as stated in the docs there are 2 events (dateChange)
and (dateInput)
that can be used if you prefer. the $event
has 3 props, target
is the MatDatepickerInput
, targetElement
for the native HTML Element, and value
which is the Date
object.
<input matInput [matDatepicker]="pickerFrom" placeholder="From"
(dateChange)="changeFunc($event)" <<---- you can send $event
(dateChange)="dateInput($event.value)" <<---- or just $event.value
>
As Nehal said, you can use the [(ngModel)]
binding; I also forgot the "name"
atribute:
<md-form-field>
<input mdInput [(ngModel)]="myDateValue" name="myDate"
[mdDatepicker]="picker" placeholder="Select a date">