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An Angular Material package for entering and validating international telephone numbers. It adds a flag dropdown to any input, detects the user's country, displays a relevant placeholder and provides formatting/validation methods.
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# International Telephone Input for Angular Material (mat-tel-input)
An Angular Material package for entering and validating international telephone numbers. It adds a flag dropdown to any input, detects the user's country, displays a relevant placeholder and provides formatting/validation methods.
[](https://www.npmjs.com/package/mat-tel-input)



## Caution
This is a fork from the [ngx-mat-intl-tel-input](https://github.com/tanansatpal/ngx-mat-intl-tel-input) library whish does not seems to be maintained anymore. _Last commit is over a year_
**Supports:**
- Angular v19
- Angular Material v19
- ReactiveFormsModule
- FormsModule
- Validation with [libphonenumber-js](https://github.com/catamphetamine/libphonenumber-js)
## Installation
### Install This Library
`$ npm i mat-tel-input@latest`
### Install Dependencies _Optional_
`$ npm i libphonenumber-js@latest`
## Usage
### Import
Add `MatTelInput` to your component file:
```ts
imports: [MatTelInput];
```
## Example
Refer to main app in this repository for working example.
```html
<mat-form-field [floatLabel]="'always'">
<mat-label>Phone</mat-label>
<mat-tel-input [preferredCountries]="['us', 'tz']" [enablePlaceholder]="true" [enableSearch]="true" name="phone" describedBy="phoneInput" formControlName="phone" />
</mat-form-field>
```
```html
<mat-form-field [floatLabel]="'always'">
<mat-label>Phone</mat-label>
<mat-tel-input
[preferredCountries]="['us', 'gb']"
[enablePlaceholder]="true"
[enableSearch]="true"
name="phone"
autocomplete="tel"
(countryChanged)="yourComponentMethodToTreatyCountryChangedEvent($event)" // $event is a instance of current select Country
formControlName="phone"
/>
</mat-form-field>
```
If you want to show the sample number for the country selected or errors , use mat-hint anf mat-error as
```html
<mat-form-field [floatLabel]="'always'">
<mat-label>Phone</mat-label>
<mat-tel-input [preferredCountries]="['us', 'tz']" [enablePlaceholder]="true" [enableSearch]="true" name="phone" describedBy="phoneInput" formControlName="phone" />
<mat-hint>e.g. {{phone.selectedCountry.placeHolder}}</mat-hint>
<mat-error *ngIf="f.form.controls['phone']?.errors?.required">Required Field</mat-error>
<mat-error *ngIf="f.form.controls['phone']?.errors?.validatePhoneNumber">Invalid Number</mat-error>
</mat-form-field>
```
## Inputs
| Options | Type | Default | Description |
| ------------------ | ---------- | ------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| enablePlaceholder | `boolean` | `false` | Input placeholder text, which adapts to the country selected. |
| enableSearch | `boolean` | `false` | Whether to display a search bar to help filter down the list of countries |
| format | `string` | `default` | Format of "as you type" input. Possible values: national, international, default |
| placeholder | `string` | `undefined` | Placeholder for the input component. |
| maxLength | `number` | `15` | max length of the input. |
| onlyCountries | `string[]` | `[]` | List of manually selected country abbreviations, which will appear in the dropdown. |
| preferredCountries | `string[]` | `[]` | List of country abbreviations, which will appear at the top. |
| resetOnChange | `boolean` | `false` | Reset input on country change |
| searchPlaceholder | `string` | `Search ...` | Placeholder for the search input |
## Outputs
| Options | Type | Default | Description |
| -------------- | ----------------------- | ----------- | ----------------- |
| countryChanged | `EventEmitter<Country>` | `undefined` | On country change |
## Css variable
| Name | Default | Explanation |
| ------------------------------------- | -------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `--mat-tel-input-opacity` | `1` | If you wish both, the country flag and the placeholder to be shown by default |
| `--mat-tel-input-selector-opacity` | `1` | If you wish the country flag to be shown by default |
| `--mat-tel-input-placeholder-opacity` | `1` | If you wish the placeholder flag to be shown by default |
| `--mat-tel-input-flag-display` | `inline-block` | If you wish to hide the country flag |
## Validator
In case you had to manually remove the validator, the library exported it so you could add it back again.
| Name | Description | Example |
| ---------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| `matTelInputValidator` | The actual phone validator used for the control | `phoneControl.addValidators([matTelInputValidator])` |
## Library Contributions
- Fork repo.
- Go to `./libs/mat-tel-input`
- Update `./src/lib` with new functionality.
- Update README.md
- Pull request.
### Helpful commands
- Copy license and readme files: `$ npm run copy-files`
- Publish package: `$ npm run publish`
<!-- ### Use locally
After building and creating package, you can use it locally too.
In your project run:
`$ npm install --save {{path to your local '*.tgz' package file}}` -->
## Authors and acknowledgment
- maintainer [Munir I Said](https://github.com/Muneersahel)
- Forked from [ngx-mat-intl-tel-input](https://github.com/tanansatpal/ngx-mat-intl-tel-input)