International Telephone Input for Angular Material (mat-tel-input)

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.

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 v19
• Angular Material v19
• ReactiveFormsModule
• FormsModule
• Validation with libphonenumber-js

Installation

Install This Library

$ npm i mat-tel-input@latest

Install Dependencies Optional

$ npm i libphonenumber-js@latest

Usage

Import

Add MatTelInput to your component file:

imports: [MatTelInput];

Example

Refer to main app in this repository for working example.

<mat-form-field [floatLabel]="'always'">
  <mat-label>Phone</mat-label>
  <mat-tel-input [preferredCountries]="['us', 'tz']" [enablePlaceholder]="true" [enableSearch]="true" name="phone" describedBy="phoneInput" formControlName="phone" />
</mat-form-field>

<mat-form-field [floatLabel]="'always'">
  <mat-label>Phone</mat-label>
  <mat-tel-input
    [preferredCountries]="['us', 'gb']"
    [enablePlaceholder]="true"
    [enableSearch]="true"
    name="phone"
    autocomplete="tel"
    (countryChanged)="yourComponentMethodToTreatyCountryChangedEvent($event)" // $event is a instance of current select Country
    formControlName="phone"
  />
</mat-form-field>

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

<mat-form-field [floatLabel]="'always'">
  <mat-label>Phone</mat-label>
  <mat-tel-input [preferredCountries]="['us', 'tz']" [enablePlaceholder]="true" [enableSearch]="true" name="phone" describedBy="phoneInput" formControlName="phone" />
  <mat-hint>e.g. {{phone.selectedCountry.placeHolder}}</mat-hint>
  <mat-error *ngIf="f.form.controls['phone']?.errors?.required">Required Field</mat-error>
  <mat-error *ngIf="f.form.controls['phone']?.errors?.validatePhoneNumber">Invalid Number</mat-error>
</mat-form-field>

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 | | ------------------------------------- | -------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | --mat-tel-input-opacity | 1 | If you wish both, the country flag and the placeholder to be shown by default | | --mat-tel-input-selector-opacity | 1 | If you wish the country flag to be shown by default | | --mat-tel-input-placeholder-opacity | 1 | If you wish the placeholder flag to be shown by default | | --mat-tel-input-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 | | ---------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | | matTelInputValidator | The actual phone validator used for the control | phoneControl.addValidators([matTelInputValidator]) |

Library Contributions

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

Helpful commands

• Copy license and readme files: $ npm run copy-files
• Publish package: $ npm run publish

Authors and acknowledgment

• maintainer Munir I Said
• Forked from ngx-mat-intl-tel-input