Angular PrimeNG Button Link Buttons Component

Angular PrimeNG is an open-source front-end UI library that has many native Angular UI components which help developers to build a fast and scalable web solution. In this article, we will see Angular PrimeNG Button Link Buttons Component.

A Button component is used for carrying out some action when clicked. The Link button has a transparent background and is styled as a link (<a> tag). To style a button as a link the p-button-link class is used.

Angular PrimeNG Button Link Buttons Component Properties:

• label: This property of the button component is used to set the text of the button.
• icon: The icon property of the button is used to set the icon to display in the button.

Angular PrimeNG Button Link Buttons Component Styling:

• p-button-link: This class is used to style the button as a link.

Syntax:

<button pButton type="button" 
      label="Link Button" 
      class="p-button-link">
</button>

Creating Angular Application and Installing the Module:

Step 1: Create an Angular application using the following command.

ng new appname

Step 2: After creating your project folder i.e. appname, move to it using the following command.

cd appname

Step 3: Finally, Install PrimeNG in your given directory.

npm install primeng --save
npm install primeicons --save

The project Structure will look like this after following the above steps:

Project Structure

Example 1: This example shows the use of the p-button-link to create a simple link button.

app.component.html

<div class="header">
    <h2>GeeksforGeeks</h2>
    <h3>Angular PrimeNG Button
      Link Buttons Component
      </h3>
</div>

<div class="buttons">
  <button pButton type="button"
    label="Link Button"
    class="p-button-link">
  </button>
</div>

app.component.css

div{
    display: flex;
    align-items: center;
    justify-content: center;
    flex-direction: column;
}

.header h2{
    margin-bottom: 0;
    color: green;
}

button{
    margin-bottom: 10px;
}

app.component.ts

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
      selector: 'app-root',
      templateUrl: './app.component.html',
      styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})
export class AppComponent {}

app.module.ts

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';

import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import {ButtonModule} from 'primeng/button'

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

Run the below command to see the output.

ng serve --open

Output:

Example 2: In this example, we used the icon property of the button component to display an icon with the link button.

app.component.html

<div class="header">
    <h2>GeeksforGeeks</h2>
    <h3>Angular PrimeNG Button Link Buttons Component</h3>
</div>
<div class="buttons">
    <button pButton type="button" label="Link Button"
       class="p-button-link"
       icon="pi pi-check">
      </button>

    <button pButton type="button" label="Link Button"
       class="p-button-link"
       icon="pi pi-hashtag">
      </button>

    <button pButton type="button" label="Link Button"
       class="p-button-link"
       icon="pi pi-moon">
      </button>
</div>

app.component.css

div{
    display: flex;
    align-items: center;
    justify-content: center;
    flex-direction: column;
}

.header h2{
    margin-bottom: 0;
    color: green;
}

button{
    margin-bottom: 10px;
}

app.component.ts

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
      selector: 'app-root',
      templateUrl: './app.component.html',
      styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})
export class AppComponent {}

app.module.ts

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';

import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import {ButtonModule} from 'primeng/button'

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

Output:

Reference: http://primefaces.org/primeng/button