I'm developing a pure Material Design application using Angular Material framework.
However, I don't understand how to set containers' background colors (e.g. a login form with a blue background).
I could do it using CSS of course but I wonder if there's a built-in directive / theme option to do this.
I am pretty sure I have seen this somewhere in the docs, but I cant find it now. You have to do two different things:
- set
.backgroundPalette('indigo')
same way as you set primary theme
- create container
I have check it on 0.8.1 version of angular-material and it works ok.
Feel free to ask, if you have any additional questions.
For example:
app.config(function ($mdThemingProvider) {
$mdThemingProvider
.theme('default')
.primaryPalette('indigo')
.accentPalette('pink')
.warnPalette('red')
.backgroundPalette('blue-grey');
});
and in your template:
<md-content>
<p>Some text</p>
</md-content>
You can set any color from the palette with md-colors directive.
https://material.angularjs.org/1.1.4/api/directive/mdColors
The format will be [?theme]-[palette]-[?hue]-[?opacity] where ? means optional parameter.
But from my experience you have to specify the theme even if it's default:
<md-button md-colors="{color: 'default-red-A100', 'background': 'default-primary-600'}">Button</md-button>
On a sidenote, ignoring the "without css" part of the question, I see that the Material Angular creators uses plain old css to create a background color, see this codepen (you also find this via the Getting Started section: "Fork a codepen").
html
<div id="content" ng-view flex> </div>
css
.demo #content {
background-color: rgb(255, 244, 220);
padding:30px;
font-weight:600;
border: 1px solid #aeaeae;
border-top:none;
}