ng2letteravatar

Angular 2 letter avatar component, letter avatar for the given string. Like gmail or google inbox text avatar i.e. First letter of the given data will be the avatar

AngularJS directive for simple data avatar like gmail/inbox. demo

preview snaps :

Quick start

bower install ng2letteravatar or npm install ng2letteravatar

How to integrate or use this component:

Example:

import {
    NgModule,
    Component
} from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { platformBrowserDynamic } from "@angular/platform-browser-dynamic";
import { Ng2LetterAvatar } from "ng2letteravatar/ng2letteravatar";

// import { Ng2LetterAvatar } from "node_modules/ng2letteravatar/ng2letteravatar.js";  provide absolute js file path

@Component({
    selector: 'sample',
    template: `
  <div> 
   <ng2-letter-avatar avatar-data='{{name}}' ></ng2-letter-avatar>
  </div>
  `
})
class HelloWorld {
    name: string = 'testing';
}

@NgModule({
    declarations: [HelloWorld, Ng2LetterAvatar],
    imports: [BrowserModule],
    bootstrap: [HelloWorld],
})
class HelloWorldAppModule { }

platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(HelloWorldAppModule);

If you are using system.js/systemjs.config.js, don't forget to add 'ng2-letter-avatar' to your list of packages.

 var map = {
        'app': 'app',
        'rxjs': 'node_modules/rxjs',
        '@angular': 'node_modules/@angular',
        'ng2letteravatar': 'node_modules/ng2letteravatar'
    };
    
 // packages tells the System loader how to load when no filename and/or no extension
    var packages = {
        'rxjs': {defaultExtension: 'js'},
        'ng2LAjs': {main: 'ng2letteravatar/ng2letteravatar.js'},
    };

Option attirbutes

You can affect how letteravatar operates with the following settings:

attribute name	default	description
avatar-custom-bg-color	No default value	Using this attribute set the custom color for avatar background.
avatar-dynamic	false	Set this attribute to true if dynamically avatar needs to be generated on data change.
avatar-rotate-degree	0	Set this attribute required degrees of rotation of the avatar.
avatar-alphabet-colors	default color set	Using this attribute set the custom colors for the alphabets only.
avatar-char-count	1	Specifies the number of letters to displayed. to generate combined letter avatar of first name and last name which are separated by space then set the value to '2'
avatar-data		Input data i.e. email, names...etc -OR- If image already exists for item, set image URL or image data
avatar-height	50px	set the height for the avatar
avatar-width	50px	set the width for the avatar
avatar-font-weight	400	set the font weight for the avatar
avatar-font-size	30px	set the font size for the letter
avatar-shape	square	set the shape for the avatar. set 'round' for rounded avatars
avatar-font-family	HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica, Arial,Lucida Grande, sans-serif	set the font Family of the avatar.
avatar-border	false	set the avatarborder to 'true' for the white border to avatar.
avatar-custom-border	no default value	using this attribute set the custom style to avatar borders i.e "border:5px solid black".

Contributions

For problems/suggestions please create an issue on Github.

Contributors

• @uttesh

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017 Uttesh Kumar T.H. http://www.uttesh.com

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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