Mat Table Sort

We want to add the sorting functionality to our table and for that purpose we are going to use the matsort directive on the table tag.

Mat table sort. Sorting data in material table. Mattable is the wrapper for cdktable. Linking the sortable column header to the data source. In this picture i sorted employee name and you can an arrow on this column as well.

This tutorial is about angular 5 data table here we will be creating a single page angular application from cli command and then integrate material with it and create a sample data table using mattablemodule and mat table directive the data table will support pagination sorting filtering and row selection provided by matpaginator and matsort in matpaginatormodule and matsortmodule. Moreover we need to place the mat sort header directive for each header cell that will trigger sorting. And this covers the template changes let s now have a look at the changes we made to the coursecomponent in order to enable table header sorting. Mat table mat table is the selector of mattable directive.

The cdktable is a customizable table. In this chapter we will showcase the configuration required to show a sort header using angular material. Following is the content of the modified module descriptor app module ts. Black run command to start the application.

In this last point i am going to show you how to filter your mat table. Look at the table headers you will header a sort arrow on each on mouse hover. To reverse the sort order of a column a user taps the header name or arrow icon. Sorting by signal name in descending order is indicated with a downward arrow next to the column header name.

We can provide it in three ways. The mat sort header and matsort an angular directives are used to add sorting capability to a table header. Ui component infrastructure and material design components for mobile and desktop angular web applications. We ve finished working with angular material 8 data tables along with angular data sorting and angular pagination.

Upon sorting the arrow icon reverses direction. Now we should have a better styled table. It can be either simple data array or observable of data array or a datasource. It has dynamic columns and accessible dom structure.