ngStyle API

The @angular/flex-layout ngStyle directive is a subclass of the @angular/common ngStyle directive.

ngStyle Enhancements

• Supports merging style key-values into non-responsive [ngStyle] options
• Supports responsive [ngStyle.<alias>] usages; see section below

Standard (non-responsive) Features

Traditionally ngStyle updates an HTML element inline styles (highest specificity):

The styles are updated according to the value of the expression evaluation:

• keys are style names with an optional .<unit> suffix (ie 'top.px', 'font-style.em'),
• values are the values assigned to those properties (expressed in the given unit).

<some-element 
    style="color:red; font-size:12pt;"
   [ngStyle]="{'font-style': styleExp}">
 ... 
</some-element>

<some-element [ngStyle]="{'max-width.px': widthExp}">
  ...
</some-element>

<some-element [ngStyle]="objExp">
  ...
</some-element>

Note: using ngStyle with style will cause the initial style key/values to be merged into the ngStyle options.

Responsive Features

The Flex-Layout ngClass adds responsive features to also add/remove CSS styles for activated breakpoints.

<some-element 
    style="font-size:12px; color:black; text-align:left;"
    [ngStyle.sm]="{'font-size': '16px', color: '#a63db8', 'text-align': 'center'}"
    ngStyle.md="font-size: 24px; color : #0000ff; text-align: right;">
...
</some-elment>

<some-element [ngStyle]="{'max-width.px': widthExp}">
  ...
</some-element>

<some-element [ngStyle]="objExp">
  ...
</some-element>

See Plunkr Demo

Merging Styles

Note that the default styles (specified by style="" or ngStyle="...") will be preserved (and merged) into other activation class lists UNLESS the breakpoint has specified that a style should be removed (using a null value)

Below the font size and colors are changed for 'sm' and 'md' breakpoints. Yet for 'md', the text-align style remains the same as the default === 'left'. Deactivations of 'sm' or 'md' breakpoints to other breakpoints will result in only the default styles being re-applied.

<some-element 
    style="font-size:12px; color:black; text-align:left;"
    [ngStyle.sm]="{'font-size': '16px', color: '#a63db8'}"
    ngStyle.md="font-size: 24px; color : #0000ff; text-align: right;">
  ...
</some-elment>