Why mat-error not get displayed inside mat-form field in angular material 6 withcustom global validators

Question

i am using angular material 6 ,i have a vaidation inside mat-form-field mat-error is not displayed , when move after mat-form-field to the mat-error which is displaying properly.

Not Working code:

 <mat-form-field>
<input matInput type="time" formControlName="ToTime"/> <mat-error *ngIf="DaterForm.get('ToTime').hasError('InValidToTime')">FromTime Should be less than ToTime if choose a same date</mat-error>
     </mat-form-field>

Working Fine:

 <input matInput type="time" formControlName="ToTime"/> </mat-form-field>
 <mat-error *ngIf="DaterForm.get('ToTime').hasError('InValidToTime')">FromTime Should be less than ToTime if choose a same date</mat-error>

Some one explain why which is not working inside that control.

Live Demo: stackblitz

Answer 1

Yes, mat-error does not show up by default. It only shows when the input is touched.

But, luckily you can override this behavior using errorStateMatcher input property, bound to mat-input element.

The pull request in which this feature was added.

Usage :

<mat-form-field>
    <input matInput [errorStateMatcher]="matcher" [matDatepicker]="picker" placeholder="Choose a Start date" 
    formControlName="FromDate"
      [min]="minFromDate" 
           [max]="maxToDate" >
    <mat-datepicker-toggle matSuffix [for]="picker" ></mat-datepicker-toggle>
    <mat-datepicker #picker></mat-datepicker>
    <mat-error >Please provide a valid Fromdate</mat-error> 
  </mat-form-field> 

So you have to implement ErrorStateMatcher in your code this way.

export class MyErrorStateMatcher implements ErrorStateMatcher {
  isErrorState(control: FormControl | null, form: FormGroupDirective | NgForm | null): boolean {
    const isSubmitted = form && form.submitted;
    return (control && control.invalid);
  }
}

And in your component add a new object matcher for ErrorStateMatcher class, which will act as a value to [errorStateMatcher]="matcher"

matcher = new MyErrorStateMatcher();

I have also added the same code in your forked stackblitz

Suggestion :

You need not provide a ngIf condition for mat-error specifying your formControlName. It will be automatically considered based on the mat-form-field in which it is present.