Customize the UI appearance of the control in Angular MaskedTextBox component

24 May 2022 / 1 minute to read

The appearance of the MaskedTextBox can be changed by adding custom cssClass to the component and enabling styles. Refer to the following example to change the appearance of the MaskedTextBox.

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app.component.ts

app.module.ts

main.ts

index.html

index.css

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

@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    // sets mask format to the MaskedTextBox
    template: `
            <div class="col-sm-6">
                <br/><ejs-maskedtextbox #mask="" id="mask1" mask='00000' value= "42648" name="mask_value" cssClass="e-style" placeholder= 'Enter user ID' floatLabelType= 'Always' (focus)= "onfocus($event)"></ejs-maskedtextbox>
            </div>
    `
})

export class AppComponent {
    public onfocus(args): void {
        //sets cursor position at start of MaskedTextBox
        args.selectionEnd= args.selectionStart;
    }
}

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { MaskedTextBoxModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-inputs';

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

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

enableProdMode();
platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule);

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>EJ2 Angular MaskedTextBox</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="Angular MaskedTextBox Component" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <!-- Here we have used CDN links for our preview purpose  -->
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.57/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.57/ej2-angular-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />

    <script src="https://unpkg.com/core-js/client/shim.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/core-js/2.4.1/core.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/zone.js/0.6.25/zone.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/reflect-metadata@0.1.3"></script>
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
</head>

<body>
    <div id='ang_container'>
        <div class='wrap'>
            <app-root>
                <div id='loader'>LOADING....</div>
            </app-root>
        </div>
    </div>
    <style>
    .e-mask.e-style .e-control.e-maskedtextbox {
        color: #00ffff ;
        letter-spacing: 10px ;
        font-size: xx-large ;
        border: 1px ;
        border-color: #ffffff ;
    }
    
    .e-control-wrapper.e-mask.e-float-input.e-style .e-float-line::before {
        background: #ffffff ;
    }
    
    .e-control-wrapper.e-mask.e-float-input.e-style .e-float-line::after {
        background: #ffffff ;
    }

    .e-control-wrapper.e-mask.e-float-input.e-style .e-float-text.e-label-top {
        color: #00ffff ;
        font-size: medium ;
    }
    </style>
</body>

</html>

#container {
    visibility: hidden;
}

#loader {
  color: #008cff;
  height: 40px;
  left: 45%;
  position: absolute;
  top: 45%;
  width: 30%;
}

.wrap {
  margin: 20px auto;
  width: 240px;
}