Making md-inputfield work for all Input fields

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paulswan
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Joined: 27 Apr 2017, 08:19

30 Nov 2017, 05:50

If you're like me you purchased the Ultima theme with the expectation that all Input controls would conform to the Material Design guidelines for Components as documented here:
https://material.io/guidelines/componen ... ields.html

The guidelines clearly outline how to display all types of text inputs including textareas, dropdowns etc. but sadly if you had tried to to used the md-inputfield to display all the text inputs in PrimeNG you would be familiar with the ugly mess in the following image:
Image

As you can see placeholders don't work for any control (even for InputText) and any input that has internal labels gets completely messed up (i.e. Dropdown and MultiSelect). It's not shown in the image but changing the label colour when the control is invalid is also only possible for InputText and Password inputs.

Despite a large number of people requesting this to be fixed in this forum and a number of feature requests on GitHub this issue still exists. Wouldn't it be great if our forms could all look like the following image?
Image

Fortunately this is not that difficult to achieve. All that you need to do is make a few small changes to the md-inputfield class in the _forms.scss file as follows:

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    .md-inputfield {
        display: block;
        position:relative;

        // Added > to the label selector to prevent labels inside input components from being selected.
        >label {
          color:#999;
          font-weight:normal;
          position:absolute;
          pointer-events:none;
          left:5px;
          top:1px;
          transition: 0.3s ease all;
          -moz-transition: 0.3s ease all;
          -webkit-transition: 0.3s ease all;
        }

        input[placeholder] ~ label,
        textarea[placeholder] ~ label,
        p-autoComplete[placeholder] ~ label,
        p-calendar[placeholder] ~ label,
        p-inputMask[placeholder] ~ label,
        p-spinner[placeholder] ~ label,
        p-dropdown ~ label,
        p-multiSelect ~ label,
        p-chips ~ label,
        textarea:focus ~ label,
        textarea.ui-state-filled ~ label,
        input:focus ~ label,
        input.ui-state-filled ~ label,
        .ui-inputwrapper-focus ~ label,
        .ui-inputwrapper-filled ~ label {
          top:-20px;
          font-size:12px;
          color:$primaryColor;
        }

        .textarea:-webkit-autofill ~ label,
        .input:-webkit-autofill ~ label {
          top:-20px;
          font-size:12px;
          color:$primaryColor;
        }

        p-autoComplete.ng-dirty.ng-invalid ~ label,
        p-dropdown.ng-dirty.ng-invalid ~ label,
        p-multiSelect.ng-dirty.ng-invalid ~ label,
        p-calendar.ng-dirty.ng-invalid ~ label,
        p-inputMask.ng-dirty.ng-invalid ~ label,
        p-spinner.ng-dirty.ng-invalid ~ label,
        p-chips.ng-dirty.ng-invalid ~ label,
        textarea.ng-dirty.ng-invalid ~ label,
        input.ng-dirty.ng-invalid ~ label {
            color: $invalidInputLabelColor;
        }

        .ui-message {
            &.ui-messages-error {
                background-color: transparent;
                border: 0 none;
                margin: 0px;
                color: $inputErrorTextColor;
                font-size: .75em;
            }
        }

        &.md-inputfield-fill {
            .ui-chips,
            .ui-multiselect,
            .ui-dropdown,
            textarea,
            input {
              background-color: $textboxBgColor;
              padding-left: 4px;
              padding-right: 4px;
              padding-top: 4px;
            }

            // Added > to the label selector to prevent labels inside input components from being selected.
            >label {
              top: 2px;
            }

            input[placeholder] ~ label,
            textarea[placeholder] ~ label,
            p-autoComplete[placeholder] ~ label,
            p-calendar[placeholder] ~ label,
            p-inputMask[placeholder] ~ label,
            p-spinner[placeholder] ~ label,
            p-dropdown ~ label,
            p-multiSelect ~ label,
            p-chips ~ label,
            textarea:focus ~ label,
            textarea.ui-state-filled ~ label,
            input:focus ~ label,
            input.ui-state-filled ~ label,
            .ui-inputwrapper-focus ~ label,
            .ui-inputwrapper-filled ~ label {
              top:-20px;
              font-size:12px;
              color:$primaryColor;
            }
        }

        &.md-inputfield-box {
            background-color: #f7f7f7;
            height: 44px;

            >*:not(label) {
                bottom: 0px;
                position: absolute;
                background-color: $textboxBgColor;
                padding-left: 4px;
                padding-right: 4px;
                padding-top: 24px;
            }

            >label {
                top: 23px;
            }

            input:focus ~ label,
            input.ui-state-filled ~ label,
            .ui-inputwrapper-focus ~ label,
            .ui-inputwrapper-filled ~ label {
                top:1px;
            }

            .input:-webkit-autofill ~ label {
                top:1px;
            }
        }
    }
Unfortunately the label must always be floated for Dropdown, MultiSelect and Chips as the classes required to float it on focus or when filled don't currently exists in these components. Usually this isn't a problem as it is common for there to be a default label or placeholder for these controls.

I did try and get this working for the new TextBox but the expanding nature InputTextarea and Chips made this too difficult to get working properly and given that I'm unlikely to ever use this I thought I'd spend my time on something more productive.

paulswan
Posts: 94
Joined: 27 Apr 2017, 08:19

01 Dec 2017, 01:37

I have added a GitHub request for this to be fixed in the theme:
https://github.com/primefaces/layouts/issues/152

cagatay.civici
Prime
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01 Dec 2017, 14:04

Dropdown and MultiSelect is coming up in PrimeNG 5.0.3, we've tested the other inputs and have not faced with any issues. We'll review the ones that do not support it, probably do live demos to make sure everything is public.

paulswan
Posts: 94
Joined: 27 Apr 2017, 08:19

15 Feb 2018, 00:41

Any idea when this will be done in Ultima? I downloaded Ultima 5.2 and it's still not there. :(

MickeyMiner
Posts: 11
Joined: 04 Jul 2017, 13:05

23 Feb 2018, 14:01

Still waiting for floating labels.... please fix it, as it is not usable if only working on pInputText...
Cheers,
m.

paulswan
Posts: 94
Joined: 27 Apr 2017, 08:19

27 Feb 2018, 02:45

@MickeyMiner,
Don't hold your breath waiting for this to be fixed. Myself and others have been asking since Feb 2017.

viewtopic.php?f=45&t=49681&p=156579

sleitzinger
Posts: 2
Joined: 10 Feb 2018, 19:22

19 Mar 2018, 18:39

Is this ever going to be fixed? A bit of a joke that a material theme can't do float labels isn't it?

cagatay.civici
Prime
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21 May 2018, 10:10

We'll add this and do an update this week.

GopalP
Posts: 27
Joined: 20 Feb 2018, 12:14

06 Dec 2018, 14:38

It is still not available. Please include it as soon as possible.

merve7
Posts: 861
Joined: 12 Sep 2017, 10:44

17 Dec 2018, 10:12

So sorry for this.
We added placeholder support and today released Ultima 7.0.1 version for this issue.

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