Angular Material: 'mat-dialog-content' is not a known element

Question

Before marking this question as "duplicate", kindly hear me out since I'm stuck for hours with this problem. I've gone through the existing questions but could not find any solution.

I'm learning Angular and have started with Angular 9+ and Angular Material. I'm trying to implement a simple dialog of Angular Material by reading the documentation from the official page.

My code closely follows the example code but I'm at a loss on why I'm still getting this error messages:

'mat-dialog-content' is not a known element.
'mat-dialog-actions' is not a known element.

The dialog does show up but it looks as if no Angular Material components / directives are being rendered at all in the dialog template html. Even if I use <button mat-button>Button</button>, it would be rendered as a normal button and not an Angular Material button. Everything else which is not in the dialog template works perfectly fine. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong here, but if anyone could point me out my mistake, that'd be great!

app.module.ts: (I'm importing the MatDialogModule)

...
import { MatDialogModule } from '@angular/material/dialog';

@NgModule({
    declarations: [
        ...
    ],
    imports: [
        ...
        MatDialogModule
    ],
    providers: [],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

mycomponent.ts:

import { Component, OnInit, ViewChild, Inject } from '@angular/core';
import { MatDialog, MatDialogModule, MAT_DIALOG_DATA, MatDialogConfig } from '@angular/material/dialog';
...

@Component({
  selector: 'app-my',
  templateUrl: './my.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./my.component.css']
})
export class MyComponent implements OnInit {

    constructor(public dataDialogHandler: MatDialog) {}

    ngOnInit(): void {}

    public openDataDialog(): void {

        const dialogConfig = new MatDialogConfig();

        dialogConfig.data = {};

        this.dataDialogHandler.open(DataDialogComponent, dialogConfig);
    }
}

@Component({
    selector: 'data-dialog',
    templateUrl: './data-dialog.html'
})
export class DataDialogComponent {

    constructor(@Inject(MAT_DIALOG_DATA) public data: DialogData) {}
}

export interface DialogData {}

data-dialog.html:

<h2 mat-dialog-title>some title</h2>
<mat-dialog-content>
    <p>dialog works</p>
</mat-dialog-content>
<mat-dialog-actions align="end">
    <button mat-button mat-dialog-close>Close</button>
</mat-dialog-actions>

and finally, in my.component.html:

<button mat-button (click)="openDataDialog()">View Dialog</button>

What am I doing wrong here? Thanks in advance!

@angular/core 9.0.7
@angular/cdk 9.1.3
@angular/material 9.1.3
typescript 3.7.5

Answer 1

Change the mat-dialog-content and mat-dialog-actions to attributes. i.e:

<div mat-dialog-content>
    <p>dialog works</p>
</div>
<div mat-dialog-actions align="end">
    <button mat-button mat-dialog-close>Close</button>
</div>

Answer 2

Please add DataDialogComponent in the declarations array, and in entryComponents array of app.module.ts

import { MatDialogModule } from '@angular/material/dialog';

@NgModule({
    declarations: [
       DataDialogComponent //I think you have missed this declaration
    ],
    imports: [
        ...
        MatDialogModule
    ],
    providers: [],
   entryComponents: [DataDialogComponent]
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

Answer 3

I had the same problem and solved it by moving the dialog component and the container components into different files. At the moment you've got this setup where both the dialog and the container component are declared in the same file:

# my.component.ts

@Component({
  selector: 'app-my',
  templateUrl: './my.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./my.component.css']
})
export class MyComponent implements OnInit {

    constructor(public dataDialogHandler: MatDialog) {}

    ngOnInit(): void {}

    public openDataDialog(): void {

        const dialogConfig = new MatDialogConfig();

        dialogConfig.data = {};

        this.dataDialogHandler.open(DataDialogComponent, dialogConfig);
    }
}

@Component({
    selector: 'data-dialog',
    templateUrl: './data-dialog.html'
})
export class DataDialogComponent {

    constructor(@Inject(MAT_DIALOG_DATA) public data: DialogData) {}
}

export interface DialogData {}

Split the components into separate files

I would suggest creating an entirely new dialog component that handles its own dependencies so that you end up with this:

# my.component.ts

import { Component} from '@angular/core';
import{ MatDialog } from '@angular/material/dialog';

# Make sure you import your newly created component
import{ MyDataDialog } from 'src/app/wherever-youve-put-it/my-data-dialog.component';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-my',
  templateUrl: './my.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./my.component.css']
})
export class MyComponent implements OnInit {

    constructor(public dataDialogHandler: MatDialog) {}

    ngOnInit(): void {}

    public openDataDialog(): void {

        const dialogConfig = new MatDialogConfig();

        dialogConfig.data = {};

        this.dataDialogHandler.open(MyDataDialogComponent, dialogConfig);
    }
}

Then use ng generate component my-data-dialog to create a new component to be your dialog. You can then copy across dependencies and code into (you'll be less likely to get references etc. wrong if you use the CLI to generate it and copy rather than just copy into a new handcrafted component)

# my-data-dialog.component.ts

import { Component, OnInit, Inject} from '@angular/core';
import{ MAT_DIALOG_DATA } from '@angular/material/dialog';

@Component({
    selector: 'data-dialog',
    templateUrl: './data-dialog.html'
})
export class DataDialogComponent {

    constructor(@Inject(MAT_DIALOG_DATA) public data: DialogData) {}
}

export interface DialogData {}

Answer 4

Finally I got a solution for my problem!

Needed to answer here because I think it's the same thing. It'll help a lot of people for sure!

So, there are two problems: The firt is that you aren't exporting 'MyComponent'.

@NgModule({
    declarations: [
        ...
    ],
    imports: [
        ...
        MatDialogModule
    ],
    providers: [],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
    exports: [ AppComponent,         #add this code
              MyComponent ],
})

It seems that angular can't bind your imports in a class that isn't exported. Well that solved the problem in HTML file. Now the second one: for the test, after you add your component in your "module.ts", you need to add the MatDialogModule in "spec.ts" too:

beforeEach(async() => {
await TestBed.configureTestingModule({
  imports: [ CommonModule,
    ...,
    MatDialogModule],

After these changes it worked fine.

Answer 5

It seems that the current Material docs:

<h2 mat-dialog-title>Delete all elements?</h2>

This will delete all elements that are currently on this page and cannot be undone. Cancel

<button mat-button [mat-dialog-close]="true">Delete

and here

Do not work for Angular 12. The solution above by Danilo Mz worked for me.

Ie: " Change the mat-dialog-content and mat-dialog-actions to attributes"

Answer 6

You are missing the entryComponents declaration.

Also add interface for DialogData

export interface DialogData {
 example: string;
}

Live: https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-q4mwkt

MatDialog - Medium Post