Angular Material 5: how to call a function when a tab is selected (clicked)?

Question

I have the following html code

<mat-tab label="Regular" (selectChange)="tabClick()"
                 (click)="tabClick()">
   <h1>Some more tab content</h1>
</mat-tab>

and this is the function,

tabClick(){
    console.log('Tab clicked...');
}

but it doesn't seems to be called, why? No one of the above events are fired?

Answer 1

The selectedTabChanged event has to be attached to the <mat-tab-group> element

<mat-tab-group (selectedTabChange)="tabClick($event)">
  <mat-tab label="Tab 1">Content 1</mat-tab>
  <mat-tab label="Tab 2">Content 2</mat-tab>
</mat-tab-group>

---

tabClick(tab) {
  console.log(tab);
}

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