Support template content for selected value in md-select

[wouterbeukers]

Bug, feature request, or proposal:

bug

What is the expected behavior?

Selected option of a md-select supports html-tags

What is the current behavior?

Selected option of a md-select doesn't supports html-tags

What are the steps to reproduce?

See http://plnkr.co/edit/QJUCobw9yFcu1l1WtpOR?p=preview
Open the md-select.
In the dropdown the option supports html tags
Select the option
All html tags are stripped of the shown value in the md-select.

[dougmbarcellos]

Use this to display the formatted html:
<div [innerHtml]="selectedValue"></div>

[wouterbeukers]

That isn't the issue.
It is about the value what the md-selects shows after you select an option.
This value is stripped of al it's html-tags.

[negberts]

The html is stripped here:

get viewValue(): string {
// TODO(kara): Add input property alternative for node envs.
return this._getHostElement().textContent.trim();
}

I would love to change it, but I don't know what the impact will be. There's probably a reason why textContent is taken and not just value

[fxck]

@kara do you have something in mind regarding this? I would probably like to take a look at it.. also @crisbeto do you expect any problems with this because of multiselect?

[crisbeto]

I don't expect any issues with multi select since it'll use the same property to get the text. I was actually considering giving this a shot in the next few days.

[andreasrueedlinger]

@crisbeto thanks for your PR. So I guess you intended that with this change you can add the "plain HTML" option as label as follows:
<md-select-label [innerHtml]="select.selected?._getHostElement().innerHTML"></md-select-label>

[crisbeto]

This is the intended usage @andreasrueedlinger:

<md-select #select="mdSelect">
  <md-select-label>
    {{ select.selected?.viewValue }}
  </md-select-label>
  <!-- options go here -->
</md-select>

[andreasrueedlinger]

@crisbeto but that does not fix the problem adressed in this issue, namely that the label does not support Html!

[crisbeto]

You can put any HTML you want inside the md-select-label element.

[fxck]

That's not what he meant I think.

When you have..

<md-option>
  <img src="whatever.jpg" /> Whatever
</md-option>

..and you select it, the selected content won't be <img src="whatever.jpg" /> Whatever, it will be stripped down to Whatever. He wants the original unstripped HTML to be there instead. I'm not sure if {{ select.selected?.viewValue }} does that?

[andreasrueedlinger]

But in your example you use normal binding and viewValue which returns the trimmed textContent, so no Html anymore.
My example:

<md-select placeholder="Feedback" [formControl]="control" #select="mdSelect">
  <md-select-label [innerHtml]="select.selected?._getHostElement().innerHTML"></md-select-label>
  <md-option value="good">
    <md-icon>thumb_up</md-icon> Nice!
  </md-option>
  <md-option value="bad">
    <md-icon>thumb_down</md-icon> Bad!
  </md-option>
</md-select>

[crisbeto]

That's true, but if we just dumped the innerHTML instead, we'd be opening the user up to XSS, in addition to the potential performance implications.

[fxck]

There should be a straightforward way to do it nevertheless. It's pretty limiting when you know the values are safe.

[fxck]

Also the way it works currently is that if I have..

<md-option>
  <span class="in-a-circle-with-background-and-uppercase">un</span>User Name
</md-option>

..the selected value will be unUser Name, which is pretty annoying..

[crisbeto]

You can still use _getHostElement().innerHTML as @andreasrueedlinger mentioned, but there are better ways to do the same (e.g. you could map images or icons to values in your component).

[andreasrueedlinger]

XSS should not be a problem since Angular sanitizes the input to innerHtml unless you explicitely allow (https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/api/platform-browser/index/DomSanitizer-class.html)

[ermarkar]

support for multiple selection ?

[fxck]

Good thing is that I think this could be used for #2722 (comment)

[Toub]

Is there any workaround with 2.0.0-beta.3 ?

[fxck]

@Toub still waiting for #3341

[matte00]

Any news about this?

[negberts]

An updated plunker for the problem can be found here: http://plnkr.co/edit/vuF3Pz7UHDXERXZbtiIK?p=preview

[mladilav]

Any news about this?

[sdargaud]

As a dirty workaround I am currently using somehting along those lines :

<md-select placeholder="Feedback" [formControl]="control" #select="mdSelect">
  <md-option value="good">
    <md-icon *ngIf="select.panelOpen">thumb_up</md-icon> Nice!</md-icon>
    <div *ngIf="!select.panelOpen">Nice!</div>
  </md-option>
</md-select>

At least I don't have "thumb_up Nice!" displayed and can work with it until it's fixed (be aware, it does seem to take some time to evaluate the template when opening the select, and the raw html is shown for a short period of time).

[LayZeeDK]

For future reference, you can use the <mat-select-trigger> to change the display of the selected value.

It was added by @crisbeto in Angular Material version 2 beta 10.

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