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Support hint text with select

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Bug, feature request, or proposal:

Feature request

What is the expected behavior?

<md-select ... >
    <md-option ... ></md-option>
    ...
    ...
    <md-hint>some hint text</md-hint>
</md-select>

What is the current behavior?

not supported

What is the use-case or motivation for changing an existing behavior?

A hint below the select box. This could be used (For example) as a validation message when the select is not selected. Behaviour similar to the component.

Which versions of Angular, Material, OS, browsers are affected?

Material2 v2.0.0-beta.1 Angular 2.4.1

Issue Analytics

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Created 7 years ago
Reactions:30
Comments:8 (1 by maintainers)

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sdargaudcommented, May 5, 2017

Please don’t forget md-error.

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