#HTML FONT PICKER HOW TO#
#HTML FONT PICKER INSTALL#
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To set a particular value, you can set an id or classname attribute on the component, then specify the properties in a CSS declaration: The border color of the selection overlay. This should be high enough to cover all other elements. The background color of the particular font entry that is currently selected. The background color of the particular font entry that the user is hovering over. This is required to cover the contents behind the drop-down overlay. The background color for the overlay element. The text align for the non-overlay input element.

The amount of padding the non-overlay input element should have. Note that you can use the component without specifying any of these in that case, it will use all of its default values. The table below outlines all css variables the component accepts, their purpose, and their default values. The preview component at the top of this article uses some overrides to change the hover colors. If these defaults do not fit, the component also accepts overrides via CSS variables. This can be used to hide the component and show an error message if there is an issue.īy default, this component provides its own styles for sizes, borders, and text hover effects. If there is an error loading the fonts, the error object will be emitted in this property. This can be useful for preview/demo purposes. This will emit on hover regardless of whether or not the user selects it. When the user hovers over a font, this will emit an event of type iGoogleFont. In most cases, font.family is all the consumer needs to work with. When the users selects a different font, this will emit an event of type iGoogleFont which contains information about the selected font.

#HTML FONT PICKER CODE#

The code below shows a simple example where the component is placed with some input and output properties. Add the selector to your html file: byte-this-google-font-selector-input.Import ByteThisNgxGoogleFontsModule into your module: any module which will use the component must import our library module.

#HTML FONT PICKER INSTALL#

Install or if you prefer, clone the Git repo and include everything directly within your project.Google's Google Fonts Developer API page can walk you through this process. Get a Google API Key: if you haven't already done so, you will need to create a Google account and get an API key.To get started now: you can directly install via npm: GitHub Project to view the source code and create forks.Npm Package to directly instlal and use.The project is open source and is available on:

This is a pure Angular implementation there are no imports for jQuery, bootstrap, etc. The fonts will always appear in alphabetical order.

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The user can type the first few characters of a name, and the list will update to the fonts which begin with that prefix. This interface element also contains web-safe fonts. The ngx-google-fonts package contains functionailty for loading, rendering, and allowing the user to select google fonts via drop-down interface. If a hover is no longer happening, this will reset to some default value. It will dynamically update as the hover event changes. This paragraph is rendered with the font currently being hovered over in the input element above. Try it out with a few different selections and observe how it behaves: Loading fonts. It takes care of loading the list of fonts, presenting them on click, and dynamically lazy-loading each font as it comes into view. The component below is a preview of the font selector.

#HTML FONT PICKER HOW TO#

In the sections below, I'll outline how to get started with using this component, then outline the behavior and customizability in more detail.

Lazy loading all required fonts as they come into view.Īfter developing, I've made this component open source and installable via npm.

Emitting events for hover and user selection.

Allowing the user to filter the list by prefix.

Allowing the user to select from a drop-down-like list, where each font name renders in its own font.

Loading the list of Google fonts, and combining with web safe fonts.

This component is a purely Angular component which provides functionality for: Therefore, I've decided to create this component myself from scratch. The few choices available were either not working, incomplete in some manner, or required bringing in external dependencies, such as jQuery. If no match is found, it returns false.While working on an app for this site, I was looking for a publicly-available font selector input component for Angular and was surprised by how few choices there were. If a match is found, the function returns true. The custom validFileType() function takes a File object as a parameter, then uses () to check if any value in the fileTypes matches the file's type property.

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