How to use Angular4 to set focus by element id

Question

I am new to Angular, and am trying to use it to set focus on an input with the id \"input1\". I am using the following code:

Answer 1

This helped to me (in ionic, but idea is the same) https://mhartington.io/post/setting-input-focus/

in template:

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in controller:

  focusInput(input) {
    input.setFocus();
  }