How to translate mat-paginator in Angular 4?

Question

Do you have any ideas how can I translate "Items per page" in Angular's mat-paginator tag? The mat-paginator is an element from Material Design.

Answer 1

You can use the MatPaginatorIntl for this. Will Showell made an example that no longer works, so here is an updated version (with Dutch) and step-by-step guidance.

1. Import the MatPaginatorIntl from @angular/material into your application.
2. Create a new paginator file for your locale (in this example I use Dutch) and import that: import { getDutchPaginatorIntl } from './app/dutch-paginator-intl'; in main.ts file
3. Set a provider for the Paginator inside of the main.ts file, so it takes the translations of your local file (instead of English as default language):

    providers: [
       { provide: MatPaginatorIntl, useValue: getDutchPaginatorIntl() }
    ]

4. Inside your paginator-intl file, set the labels for the strings that can be translated and export these. Most important part of that file (see the example for more info):

    paginatorIntl.itemsPerPageLabel = 'Items per pagina:';
    paginatorIntl.firstPageLabel = 'Eerste pagina';
    paginatorIntl.previousPageLabel = 'Vorige pagina';
    paginatorIntl.nextPageLabel = 'Volgende pagina';
    paginatorIntl.lastPageLabel = 'Laatste pagina';
    paginatorIntl.getRangeLabel = dutchRangeLabel;

Example on StackBlitz with the paginator translations file as starting point.

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June 2018 - Update to Angular 6.x
This updated Example on StackBlitz is upgraded to Angular 6.x to accommodate the latest version of the framework. Only packages have changed, nothing inside the paginator has changed.

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June 2019 - Update to Angular 8.x
This updated Example on StackBlitz is upgraded to Angular 8.x to accommodate the latest version of the framework. Only packages have changed, nothing inside the paginator has changed.

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February 2020 - Update to Angular 9.x
This updated Example on StackBlitz is upgraded to Angular 9.x to accommodate the latest version of the framework. Package versions have changed. Major change is the way to import from Angular Material. You cannot import from Material root anymore. You need to specify the import from the module (material/paginator) itself:

import { MatPaginatorModule, MatPaginatorIntl } from '@angular/material/paginator';

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June 2020 - Update to Angular 10.x
This updated Example on StackBlitz is upgraded to Angular 10.x to accommodate the latest version of the framework. Only packages have changed, nothing inside the paginator has changed.