How to set text color in Angular-Material?

Question

I want to set one word in a sentence to have md-primary color, and another word to have the accent color. I assumed something like this:

<div>
    Hello <span class="md-primary">friend</span>. 
    How are <span class="md-accent">you</span>?
</div>

But those classes work only for some specified components.

What's the way to do it?

Answer 1

I was just able to do this using Angular Material 1.1.0.

You use the md-colors directive similar to how you would ng-class:

<span md-colors="{color:'primary'}">...</span>

The above code will color the text the primary color. The object that you pass to md-colors uses the key as the css property (i.e. 'color', 'background', etc) and the value as the theme and/or palette and/or hue you want to use.

Source Docs

Answer 2

The latests bits bring good news to this issue... This functionality has been added to the 1.1.0-rc3 (2016-04-13) version. It's not stable yet, but my first test on it are satisfactory.

Now you can use the mdColors directive and $mdColors service in conjunction with themes to achieve what you're looking for.

Please, take a look at:

https://github.com/angular/material/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#110-rc3-2016-04-13

to see the announcement, and look for the mdColor directive and $mdColor service in the docs for some examples.

Answer 3

there is an issue in github that disccused this, like mentioned above TitForTat's comment in that issue almost had the perfect solution, but it doesn't work with costume palettes, i add a comment there with a fixed solution, you can check it out: https://github.com/angular/material/issues/1269#issuecomment-124859026

Answer 4

I think the only way is to create your own custom palette as demonstrated in the docs: https://material.angularjs.org/latest/#/Theming/03_configuring_a_theme under the paragraph Defining Custom Palette. There you can define 'contrastDefaultColor' to be light or dark. If I am correct, that should do it.

However, I want to use a standard palette and override the text color to light, not define a whole new palette.

You can also (and I would suggest this) extend an existing palette with 'extendPalette'. This way you wouldn't have to define all hue's but only set the 'contrastDefaultColor' accordingly.

*edit: just tested a solution

Add this to your config function (look for angular code example on link provided above about configuring theme)

var podsharkOrange;

podsharkOrange = $mdThemingProvider.extendPalette('orange', {
  '600': '#689F38',
  'contrastDefaultColor': 'light'
});

$mdThemingProvider.definePalette('podsharkOrange', podsharkOrange);

$mdThemingProvider.theme('default').primaryPalette('podsharkOrange', {
  'default': '600'
});

I just set the 600 HUE to a green color to verify if the theme change works, so you can ignore that line in the extendPalette.

So this only changed the colour to light, not a specific colour. So it didn't answer your question, but might still come in handy.

Answer 5

For me i assume everything that starts with md- you can only apply theme colors to them.

In the documentation there are some components that are not documented where you can use theme colors. Example:

<md-subheader class="md-warn"> my subheader </md-subheader>
<md-icon class="md-accent"> </md-icon>

Answer 6

Angular Material's docs explicitly enumerate list of components, which you able to differentiate with md-theme attribute:

md-button
md-checkbox
md-progress-circular
md-progress-linear
md-radio-button
md-slider
md-switch
md-tabs
md-text-float
md-toolbar

From Angular Material documentation, under Theming / Declarative Syntax.

So I think the short answer is: you can't do it.