Ngx-placeholder-auto-hide NPM

ngx-placeholder-auto-hide

Angular directive to automatically hide / show input's placeholder when focusin / focusout events are detected.

Installation

To install ngx-placeholder-auto-hide, run:

$ npm install ngx-placeholder-auto-hide --save

Demo

A live demo of the ngx-placeholder-auto-hide is hosted on stackblitz.

If you would like to play with this directive, you can use this online editor.

Usage

Import PlaceholderAutoHideModule :

Once you have installed ngx-placeholder-auto-hide, you can import it in your AppModule:

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';

import { AppComponent } from './app.component';

// Import  PlaceholderAutoHideModule
import { PlaceholderAutoHideModule } from "ngx-placeholder-auto-hide";

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    // Specify PlaceholderAutoHideModule as an import
    PlaceholderAutoHideModule
  ],
  providers: [],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

The PlaceholderAutoHideModule module has one directive exported which is placeholder-auto-hide. This directive can be applied on input fields and requires one argument which is the placeholder holder attribute

Start using it:

Once the PlaceholderAutoHideModule is imported, you can start using the placeholder-auto-hide directive in your Angular application:

<input type="text" placeholder="First name" placeholder-auto-hide >
<input type="text" placeholder="Last name" placeholder-auto-hide >
<input type="tel" placeholder="Phone number" placeholder-auto-hide >