Angular Material Menu

• By itself mat-menu does not render anything
• It has to be triggered from UI element or programatically
• Documentation : https://material.angular.io/components/menu/api

material.module.ts (add a new module)

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { MatButtonModule } from '@angular/material';
import { MatProgressSpinnerModule} from '@angular/material/progress-spinner';
import { MatBadgeModule } from '@angular/material/badge';
import { MatButtonToggleModule} from '@angular/material/button-toggle';
import { MatIconModule} from '@angular/material/icon';
import { MatToolbarModule} from '@angular/material/toolbar';
import { MatSidenavModule} from '@angular/material/sidenav';
import { MatMenuModule} from '@angular/material/menu';


const MaterialComponent = [
  MatButtonModule,
  MatButtonToggleModule,
  MatIconModule,
  MatBadgeModule,
  MatProgressSpinnerModule,
  MatToolbarModule,
  MatSidenavModule,
  MatMenuModule
];

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    MaterialComponent,
  ],
  exports: [
    MaterialComponent
  ]
})
export class MaterialModule { }

app.module.ts

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';

import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { BrowserAnimationsModule } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';
import { MaterialModule } from './material/material.module';
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';


@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    BrowserAnimationsModule,
    MaterialModule,
    FormsModule
  ],
  providers: [],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

app.component.html

<mat-menu #appMenu="matMenu" xPosition="after" yPosition="above">
  <button mat-menu-item [matMenuTriggerFor]="subMenu">FrontEnd</button>
  <button mat-menu-item>BackEnd</button>
</mat-menu>
<button class="center" mat-flat-button [matMenuTriggerFor]="appMenu">Menu</button>

<mat-menu #subMenu="matMenu">
  <button mat-menu-item>Angular</button>
  <button mat-menu-item>React</button>
  <button mat-menu-item>Vue</button>
</mat-menu>

<mat-menu #lazyMenu="matMenu">
  <ng-template matMenuContent let-name="name" let-hobby="hobby">
    <button mat-menu-item>Setting</button>
    <button mat-menu-item>Hobby is {{hobby}}</button>
    <button mat-menu-item>Logout {{name}}</button>
  </ng-template>
</mat-menu>

<button
  [matMenuTriggerFor]="lazyMenu"
  [matMenuTriggerData]="{name : 'Tyson', hobby: 'Gaming'}"
  mat-raised-button> Tyson</button>
<button
  [matMenuTriggerFor]="lazyMenu"
  [matMenuTriggerData]="{name : 'Heapwizard', hobby: 'Blogging'}"
  mat-raised-button>HeapWizard</button>

app.component.css

.center{
  margin: 10rem;
}

app.component.ts

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})
export class AppComponent {
  opened = false;
  title = 'GettingStarted';
  log(state){
    console.log(state);
  }
}

Output :