mat-slider: disable special styling on minimum value

Feature Description

If a <mat-slider> is set to its minimum value, it adds a special class (.mat-slider-min-value) that changes the styling of the slider thumb. It would be useful to disable this behavior or adjust the value where this “resting state” occurs.

Use Case

In our scenario, the slider ranges from negative to positive values, so the minimum value is not semantically different to other values (except maybe the zero position). It would be nice to visually represent this equality.

[zreptil]

Why is there this special behavior? As @sdalexandre stated, the only meaningful usage for this feature is that the minimum value has a speacial meaning like empty or invalid. But when i use a slider, my normal usecase is to give the user the possibility to select a value from a range of values, where the minimum is equal in value to all the other values up to the maximum. The case that angular states as the normal case is in my opinion the special case that should be enabled with an attribute or at least be possible to disable with an attribute.

[wagnermaciel]

Hi folks! The new MDC slider came out in v15 and I believe this is no longer relevant since there’s no special styling on the minimum value anymore

For additional context, this is not something we plan to bring back because 1. it diverges from the latest Material design spec and 2. this seems really trivial to add back in if you really want it

E.g.

<mat-slider
    [color]="mySliderThumb.value === mySlider.min || mySliderThumb.value === mySlider.max ? 'warn' : 'primary'"
    #mySlider>
        <input #mySliderThumb="matSliderThumb" matSliderThumb>
</mat-slider>