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shouldPlaceholderFloat doesn't work
See original GitHub issueBug, feature request, or proposal:
Bug
What is the expected behavior?
Place holder should not float on focus.
What is the current behavior?
Placeholder floats on focus.
What are the steps to reproduce?
using master latest, this does not work to stop floating placeholder and it should based on docs:
<mat-form-field>
<input matInput type="text" placeholder="Alias name" shouldPlaceholderFloat="false">
</mat-form-field>Issue Analytics
- State:
- Created 6 years ago
- Comments:11 (2 by maintainers)
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Try with
[shouldPlaceholderFloat]="false"Without[]you passfalseas a string. Also, you should usefloatPlaceholderfrom mat-form-field instead https://material.angular.io/components/form-field/overview#floating-placeholderYou can use
floatLabel: FloatLabelTypenow.