How to get the active tab In Angular Material2

Question

I want to get which tab is active. I tried to use a @ViewChild decorator and accessing the element properties that way, but it returns null.

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Answer 1

Well, I'm not sure if I understood well your question because, by default the index always starts counting from zero unless you set manually the [selectedIndex] property.

Anyway, if you really want to see which tab is selected on initialization you could implement the AfterViewInit interface and do the following:

export class AppComponent implements AfterViewInit, OnInit {

...

  ngAfterViewInit() {
    console.log('afterViewInit => ', this.tabGroup.selectedIndex);
  }
}

On other hand, if you want to check which tab is selected based on changes (what makes more sense), here you go:

HTML:

<mat-tab-group #tabGroup (selectedTabChange)="tabChanged($event)">
  <mat-tab label="Tab 1">Content 1</mat-tab>
  <mat-tab label="Tab 2">Content 2</mat-tab>
</mat-tab-group>

Component:

tabChanged(tabChangeEvent: MatTabChangeEvent): void {
  console.log('tabChangeEvent => ', tabChangeEvent);
  console.log('index => ', tabChangeEvent.index);
}

DEMO

Answer 2

This is how you can get active index of active angular material tabs

.html file

<div>    
<mat-tab-group #tabRef (selectedTabChange)="logChange(tabRef.selectedIndex)">
  <mat-tab label="ALL"></mat-tab>
  <mat-tab label="Delivered"></mat-tab>
  <mat-tab label="Pending"></mat-tab>
  <mat-tab label="Cancelled"></mat-tab>
</mat-tab-group>    
</div>

.ts file

logChange(index)
{
  console.log(index);
} 

Don't forget to add import in app.module.ts file

import { MatTabsModule } from '@angular/material/tabs';

Answer 3

"@angular/material": "^6.2.1". The way to get selected tab index on-load (after template has loaded) and when the tab is focused.

my.component.ts

export class MyComponent implements OnInit, AfterViewInit {
    @ViewChild('tabGroup') tabGroup;

    ngAfterViewInit() {
      console.log(this.tabGroup.selectedIndex);
    }

    public tabChanged(tabChangeEvent: MatTabChangeEvent): void {
      console.log(tabChangeEvent);
    }
}

my.component.html

<mat-tab-group #tabGroup (focusChange)="tabChanged($event)" [selectedIndex]="1">
    <mat-tab>
        <ng-template mat-tab-label>Tab 1</ng-template>
        Tab Content
    </mat-tab>
    <mat-tab>
        <ng-template mat-tab-label>Tab 2</ng-template>
        Tab Content
    </mat-tab>
</mat-tab-group>

Answer 4

According to Material documentation Angular Material tabs output an event on tab change @Output() selectedTabChange: EventEmitter<MatTabChangeEvent>

Your Template:

<mat-tab-group (selectedTabChange)="tabChanged($event)">
  <mat-tab>
    <ng-template mat-tab-label>Tab 1</ng-template>
    Tab Content
  </mat-tab>
  <mat-tab>
    <ng-template mat-tab-label>Tab 2</ng-template>
    Tab Content
  </mat-tab>
</mat-tab-group>

Your Typescript:

import { MatTabChangeEvent } from '@angular/material';

public tabChanged(tabChangeEvent: MatTabChangeEvent): void {
    console.log(tabChangeEvent);
}