Angular Material Table Cell Formatting

Question

I'm using angular material table for displaying data and dyanmically binding the table header and table data. Is there any way to format particaular column's cell content dynamically?.

For example how can i format the value of amount column right aligned?

My code is as below :

<table mat-table [dataSource]="dataSource" class="" style="width: 100%;">

      <ng-container [matColumnDef]="col" *ngFor="let col of displayedColumns; let i = index">
        <th *matHeaderCellDef> {{displayedFields[i].name}}</th>
        <td mat-cell *matCellDef="let element"> {{ element[col] }} </td>
      </ng-container> 

      <tr mat-header-row *matHeaderRowDef="displayedColumns"></tr>
      <tr mat-row *matRowDef="let row; columns: displayedColumns;"></tr>
    </table>

And my data is like

[
  {
    "REFERENCE_ID": "ENT201810637610",
    "PRODUCT_TYPE": "IMPS",
    "CUSTOMER_REFERENCE": "CUS12123",
    "BENEFICIARY_NAME": "arun",
    "DEBIT_ACCOUNT": "100002258062",
    "AMOUNT": 342234,
    "STAGE_CODE": "FULLFILMENT",
    "STATUS_CODE": "NEW"
  },
  {
    "REFERENCE_ID": "ENT201808820426",
    "PRODUCT_TYPE": "IMPS",
    "CUSTOMER_REFERENCE": "12121",
    "BENEFICIARY_NAME": "Arun",
    "DEBIT_ACCOUNT": "32423424",
    "AMOUNT": 700,
    "STAGE_CODE": "INITIATION",
    "STATUS_CODE": "NEW"
  }
]

Answer 1

Best solution is to use selector in css as below where 'column_name' is the name you provide in 'matColumnDef'

.mat-column-'column_name'{
   //your custom css 
   text-align: right;
 }

if your column 'matColumnDef' is 'amount'

.mat-column-amount{
   //your custom css 
   text-align: right;
 }