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Angular DOM Events

Explore how to create and style Angular components including user-details. Learn to incorporate material icons and handle DOM events such as clicks to trigger functions. Understand component integration and event binding to build responsive Angular applications.

Creating and styling the user details component

Our application already has an app component and a header component that are rendered to the DOM using the <app-root> and <app-header> HTML tags.

Let’s now create a user-details component in the same manner and see how we can render material icons and then trap the DOM event when a user clicks on one of these icons.

We will start by creating the component using the Angular CLI as follows:

ng generate component user-details

With this command, we have specified that the Angular CLI should generate a component named user-details. The Angular CLI will generate the following four files that we will need for our component:

  • user-details.component.scss
  • user-details.component.html
  • user-details.component.ts
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