I was curious if I can get element properties form component template. So I have made simple div with class and I've made this class:
export class viewApp{
elementView: any;
viewHeight: number;
myDOM: Object;
constructor() {
this.myDOM = new BrowserDomAdapter();
}
clickMe(){
this.elementView = this.myDOM.query('div.view-main-screen');
this.viewHeight = this.myDOM.getStyle(this.elementView, 'height');
}
}
getStyle(), query() are from BrowserDomAdapter.
My problem is when I try to get height it is null, but when I set some height by setStyle() and then I get it by getStyle() it returns proper value.
After checking DOM and styles in browser I discovered that is because of two CSS elements. One is: .view-main-screen[_ngcontent-aer-1]{} and second one is element{}.
.view-main-screen has some stylings, but element is empty. When I add styles by setStyle() it appears in element{}. Why is that? How can I get element properties by using Angular2?
The correct way is to use @ViewChild() decorator:
https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/api/core/index/ViewChild-decorator.html
Template:
<div class="view-main-screen" #mainScreen></div>
Component:
import { ElementRef, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
export class viewApp{
@ViewChild('mainScreen') elementView: ElementRef;
viewHeight: number;
constructor() {
}
clickMe(){
this.viewHeight = this.elementView.nativeElement.offsetHeight;
}
}
That should do it but obviously you need to add your Component decorator.
Edit:
For Angular 8 or later you need to provide the 2nd parameter in ViewChild
@ViewChild('mainScreen', {read: ElementRef, static:false}) elementView: ElementRef;
update2
constructor(private elementRef:ElementRef) {}
someMethod() {
console.log(this.elementRef.nativeElement.offsetHeight);
}
Accessing nativeElement directly is discouraged but current Angular doesn't provide other ways as far as I know.
update
https://github.com/angular/angular/pull/8452#issuecomment-220460761
mhevery commented 12 days ago We have decided to remove Ruler service, and so it is not part of the public API.
original
As far as I know the Ruler class should provide that functionality
https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/modules/angular2/src/platform/browser/ruler.ts if this isn't enought you probably need to access elementRef.nativeElement and use direct DOM access and functions provided by the elements.
new Ruler(DOM).measure(this.elRef).then((rect: any) => {
});
Rules service is safe in WebWorker. See also the comments on https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/6515#issuecomment-173353649
<div #getElementHeight>
Height
</div>
Height of element is {{ getElementHeight.offsetHeight }}