Avatar customization in Angular Avatar component

27 Sep 202320 minutes to read

Colour customization

The avatar comes with default background colour (grey). This can be easily customized to desired colour
by adding custom class or directly selecting the avatar class from the CSS.

app.component.ts

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
    selector: 'my-app',
    template: `
    <div id='element'>
            <span class="e-avatar e-avatar-xlarge e-avatar-circle green">AJ</span>
            <span class="e-avatar e-avatar-xlarge e-avatar-circle violet">JK</span>
            <span class="e-avatar e-avatar-xlarge e-avatar-circle rose">EL</span>
            <span class="e-avatar e-avatar-xlarge e-avatar-circle blue">SR</span>
            <span class="e-avatar e-avatar-xlarge e-avatar-circle red">PD</span>
    </div>
    `
})

export class AppComponent { }

app.module.ts

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';

/**
 * Module
 */
@NgModule({
    imports: [
        BrowserModule,
    ],
    declarations: [AppComponent],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

main.ts

import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';
import { enableProdMode } from '@angular/core';
import { AppModule } from './app.module';

import 'zone.js';
enableProdMode();
platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule);

Customize avatar sizes

Even though the avatar comes with five predefined sizes, sometimes it’s not enough. So, the avatar is
designed in such a way that the width and height will be relative to font-size. By changing the
font-size of the avatar element, you can change the width and height automatically.

app.component.ts

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
    selector: 'my-app',
    template: `
    <div id='element'>
            <span class="e-avatar">26px</span>
            <span class="e-avatar">24px</span>
            <span class="e-avatar">22px</span>
            <span class="e-avatar">20px</span>
            <span class="e-avatar">18px</span>
    </div>
    `
})

export class AppComponent { }

app.module.ts

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';

/**
 * Module
 */
@NgModule({
    imports: [
        BrowserModule,
    ],
    declarations: [AppComponent],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

main.ts

import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';
import { enableProdMode } from '@angular/core';
import { AppModule } from './app.module';

import 'zone.js';
enableProdMode();
platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule);

Use various media in avatar

Avatars can be used with a wide variety of media formats like SVG, font-icons, images, letters, words,
etc. Some of them are given below.

app.component.ts

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
    selector: 'my-app',
    template: `
    <div id='element'>
            <div class="sample_container avatar-types">
                <div class="avatar-block">
                    <!-- Card Component -->
                    <div class="e-card e-avatar-showcase">
                        <div class="e-card-content">
                            <!-- XLarge Circle Avatar Component -->
                            <div class="e-avatar e-avatar-xlarge e-avatar-circle image"></div>
                        </div>
                        <div class="e-card-content">
                            <div>Image</div>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>

                <div class="avatar-block">
                    <!-- Card Component -->
                    <div class="e-card e-avatar-showcase">
                        <div class="e-card-content">
                            <!-- XLarge Circle Avatar Component -->
                            <div class="e-avatar e-avatar-xlarge e-avatar-circle">
                                <div class="svg_icons chrome"></div>
                            </div>
                        </div>
                        <div class="e-card-content">
                            <div>SVG</div>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>

                <div class="avatar-block">
                    <!-- Card Component -->
                    <div class="e-card e-avatar-showcase">
                        <div class="e-card-content">
                            <!-- XLarge Circle Avatar Component -->
                            <div class="e-avatar e-avatar-xlarge e-avatar-circle">GR</div>
                        </div>
                        <div class="e-card-content">
                            <div>Initial</div>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>

                <div class="avatar-block">
                    <!-- Card Component -->
                    <div class="e-card e-avatar-showcase">
                        <div class="e-card-content">
                            <!-- XLarge Circle Avatar Component -->
                            <div class="e-avatar e-avatar-xlarge e-avatar-circle">
                                <div class="e-people icons"></div>
                            </div>
                        </div>
                        <div class="e-card-content">
                            <div>FontIcon</div>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>

                <div class="avatar-block">
                    <!-- Card Component -->
                    <div class="e-card e-avatar-showcase">
                        <div class="e-card-content">
                            <!-- XLarge Circle Avatar Component -->
                            <div class="e-avatar e-avatar-xlarge e-avatar-circle">User</div>
                        </div>
                        <div class="e-card-content">
                            <div>Word</div>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>

                <div class="avatar-block">
                    <!-- Card Component -->
                    <div class="e-card e-avatar-showcase">
                        <div class="e-card-content">
                            <!-- XLarge Circle Avatar Component -->
                            <div class="e-avatar e-avatar-xlarge e-avatar-circle custom">
                                <div class="e-people icons"></div>
                            </div>
                        </div>
                        <div class="e-card-content">
                            <div>Custom</div>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    `
})

export class AppComponent { }

app.module.ts

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';

/**
 * Module
 */
@NgModule({
    imports: [
        BrowserModule,
    ],
    declarations: [AppComponent],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

main.ts

import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';
import { enableProdMode } from '@angular/core';
import { AppModule } from './app.module';

import 'zone.js';
enableProdMode();
platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule);

Dynamic avatar rendering from datasource

We can render avatar component dynamically from a data-source. In this sample we have rendered the avatar component
using a data-source which contains the image source in different sizes dynamically. This is applicable also for
data-source from the server or remote data or AJAX. We have also rendered the avatar using CSS property
background-image and using image tag.

app.component.ts

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
    selector: 'my-app',
    template: `
    <div class='control-pane'>
        <div class="sample_container avatar-badge">
            <div class="avatar-block">
                <div class="e-card e-avatar-showcase">
                    <div class="e-card-content">
                        <div *ngFor="let item of dataSource"
                            [style.backgroundImage]="'url('+ item.src +')'"
                            class="e-avatar e-avatar-circle ">
                        </div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="e-card-content">
                        <div>Using <code>background-image</code> property</div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>

            <div class="circleAvatar avatar-block">
                <div class="e-card e-avatar-showcase">
                    <div class="e-card-content">
                        <div *ngFor="let item of dataSource" class="e-avatar e-avatar-circle ">
                            <img src= />
                        </div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="e-card-content">
                        <div>Using <code>img</code> tag</div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    `
})

export class AppComponent {
    public dataSource: { [key: string]: string }[] | any = [
        { src: 'https://ej2.syncfusion.com/demos/src/grid/images/2.png', size: 'e-avatar-xsmall' },
        { src: 'https://ej2.syncfusion.com/demos/src/grid/images/2.png', size: 'e-avatar-small' },
        { src: 'https://ej2.syncfusion.com/demos/src/grid/images/2.png', size: 'e-avatar' },
        { src: 'https://ej2.syncfusion.com/demos/src/grid/images/2.png', size: 'e-avatar-large' },
        { src: 'https://ej2.syncfusion.com/demos/src/grid/images/2.png', size: 'e-avatar-xlarge' }
    ];
}

app.module.ts

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';

/**
 * Module
 */
@NgModule({
    imports: [
        BrowserModule,
    ],
    declarations: [AppComponent],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

main.ts

import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';
import { enableProdMode } from '@angular/core';
import { AppModule } from './app.module';

import 'zone.js';
enableProdMode();
platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule);