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Sort Table & Pagination

Explore how to enhance Angular Material tables by implementing sorting and pagination features. This lesson guides you through importing MatSortModule and MatPaginatorModule, configuring directives, and controlling data display for improved user experience in Angular applications.

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We have created a nice-looking table, but it lacks a pretty standard functionality—sorting. We would typically expect that if we click the header, it will sort data into ascending and descending order, and it will be able to recognize common data types, such as text and numbers, and sort them properly. The good news is that Angular Material can help us achieve this behavior.

Sorting table

We need to use the appropriate Angular Material directives for the job:

  1. Open the products.module.ts file and import MatSortModule from the @angular/
    material/sort
    namespace. Add it also in the imports array of the @NgModule decorator.

  2. MatSortModule exports a variety of directives that can be used to sort a table. Open ...