International Telephone Input for Angular Material (ngxMatInputTel)

An Angular Material package for entering and validating international telephone numbers. It adds a flag dropdown to any input, detects the user's country, displays a relevant placeholder and provides formatting/validation methods.

Demo

• https://stackblitz.com/~/github.com/rbalet/ngx-mat-input-tel

Caution

This is a fork from the ngx-mat-intl-tel-input library whish does not seems to be maintained anymore. Last commit is over a year

Supports:

• Angular >=15
• Angular Material >=15
• ReactiveFormsModule
• FormsModule
• Validation with libphonenumber-js

Installation

Install This Library

$ npm i ngx-mat-input-tel@latest

Install Dependencies Optional

$ npm i libphonenumber-js@latest

Usage

Import

Add NgxMatInputTelComponent to your component file:

1imports: [NgxMatInputTelComponent];

Example

Refer to main app in this repository for working example.

1<form #f="ngForm" [formGroup]="phoneForm">
2  <ngx-mat-input-tel
3    [preferredCountries]="['us', 'gb']"
4    [enablePlaceholder]="true"
5    [enableSearch]="true"
6    name="phone"
7    describedBy="phoneInput"
8    formControlName="phone"
9  ></ngx-mat-input-tel>
10</form>

1
2<form #f="ngForm" [formGroup]="phoneForm">
3  <ngx-mat-input-tel
4  [preferredCountries]="['us', 'gb']"
5  [enablePlaceholder]="true"
6  [enableSearch]="true"
7  name="phone"
8  autocomplete="tel"
9  (countryChanged)="yourComponentMethodToTreatyCountryChangedEvent($event)" // $event is a instance of current select Country
10  formControlName="phone"></ngx-mat-input-tel>
11</form>
12

If you want to show the sample number for the country selected or errors , use mat-hint anf mat-error as

1<form #f="ngForm" [formGroup]="phoneForm">
2  <ngx-mat-input-tel
3    [preferredCountries]="['us', 'gb']"
4    [onlyCountries]="['us', 'gb', 'es']"
5    [enablePlaceholder]="true"
6    name="phone"
7    autocomplete="tel"
8    formControlName="phone"
9    #phone
10  ></ngx-mat-input-tel>
11  <mat-hint>e.g. {{phone.selectedCountry.placeHolder}}</mat-hint>
12  <mat-error *ngIf="f.form.controls['phone']?.errors?.required"
13    >Required Field</mat-error
14  >
15  <mat-error *ngIf="f.form.controls['phone']?.errors?.validatePhoneNumber"
16    >Invalid Number</mat-error
17  >
18</form>

Inputs

Options	Type	Default	Description
enablePlaceholder	boolean	false	Input placeholder text, which adapts to the country selected.
enableSearch	boolean	false	Whether to display a search bar to help filter down the list of countries
format	string	default	Format of "as you type" input. Possible values: national, international, default
placeholder	string	undefined	Placeholder for the input component.
maxLength	number	15	max length of the input.
onlyCountries	string[]	[]	List of manually selected country abbreviations, which will appear in the dropdown.
preferredCountries	string[]	[]	List of country abbreviations, which will appear at the top.
resetOnChange	boolean	false	Reset input on country change
searchPlaceholder	string	Search ...	Placeholder for the search input

Outputs

Options	Type	Default	Description
countryChanged	EventEmitter<Country>	undefined	On country change

Css variable

Name	Default	Explanation
--ngxMatInputTel-opacity	0	If you wish both, the country flag and the placeholder to be shown by default
--ngxMatInputTel-selector-opacity	0	If you wish the country flag to be shown by default
--ngxMatInputTel-placeholder-opacity	0	If you wish the placeholder flag to be shown by default
--ngxMatInputTel-flag-display	inline-block	If you wish to hide the country flag

Validator

In case you had to manually remove the validator, the library exported it so you could add it back again.

Name	Description	Example
ngxMatInputTelValidator	The actual phone validator used for the control	phoneControl.addValidators([ngxMatInputTlValidator])

Library Contributions

• Fork repo.
• Go to ./projects/ngx-mat-input-tel
• Update ./src/lib with new functionality.
• Update README.md
• Pull request.

Helpful commands

• Build lib: $ npm run build_lib
• Copy license and readme files: $ npm run copy-files
• Create package: $ npm run npm_pack
• Build lib and create package: $ npm run package

Use locally

After building and creating package, you can use it locally too.

In your project run:

$ npm install --save {{path to your local '*.tgz' package file}}

Authors and acknowledgment

• maintainer Raphaël Balet
• Forked from ngx-mat-intl-tel-input