Angular Material 2: Fix for Multiline Error messages

Question

I'm using angular material 2 inside my angular application. I'm experiencing a problem when my form input field error messages are more than one line. Here is the photo:

Here is the code:

<md-error *ngIf="password.touched && password.invalid">
          <span *ngIf="password.errors.required">
                {{'PASSWORD_RECOVERY.FIELD_REQUIRED' | translate}}
          </span>
          <span *ngIf="password.errors.minlength || password.errors.maxlength">
                {{'PASSWORD_RECOVERY.PASSWORD_LENGTH' | translate}}
          </span>
          <span *ngIf="password.errors.pattern">
                {{'PASSWORD_RECOVERY.FOR_A_SECURE_PASSWORD' | translate}}
          </span>
</md-error>

I've understood by reading github, that it is a bug in angular 2 material. Did anybody manage to solve this issue by doing a custom workaround?

Answer 1

The problem is that the element with class .mat-form-field-subscript-wrapper is position: absolute, so it's not occupying real space.

As suggested on this issue on github by xumepadismal, you can add this scss as workaround that solved my problem:

// Workaround for https://github.com/angular/material2/issues/4580.
mat-form-field .mat-form-field {
  &-underline {
    position: relative;
    bottom: auto;
  }
  &-subscript-wrapper {
    position: static;
  }
}

It transforms the .mat-form-field-subscript-wrapper node in a static div, and repositionate the .mat-form-field-unterline just after the input field.