[md-card] Add md-card-header (similar to md-card-footer)

Feature request

Add a md-card-header, similar to md-card-footer, but on top of the md-card.

What is the expected behavior?

I would expect a md-card-header, so that we can place something inside a md-card, but on top, without any padding.

What is the current behavior?

md-card partially supports this with md-card-footer, but it is limited to the bottom of the md-card

What is the use-case or motivation for changing an existing behavior?

The use-case for this came to my mind when I was trying to make a md-card similar to this (example taken from the md-input documentation)

I.e. I wanted to have a md-card, with a md-toolbar as header. If I copy/paste the code given for this example, the md-toolbar would (of course) appear with a padding. We would have to apply custom css styles to make something similar. I think that it's a quite common use-case for a md-card to have a md-toolbar as title, so I would suggest to add a md-card-header, so that we can apply an element to the md-card-header, ignoring the paddings.

I think that this could easily be implemented, since it is quite similar to the md-card-footer.

Note

I know that one could just change the markup to something like this:

<md-toolbar color="primary">Basic</md-toolbar>
<md-card>
    <!-- content... -->
</md-card>

The problem with this approach is, that the md-toolbar then would have no box-shadow, which doesn't look that good. Applying a shadow to the md-toolbar would not only be redundant, but the shadow would also overlap with the md-card

[TimKlein87]

I was having the same issue, this quick workaround seems to fix it. I think it would be more intuitive to be able to use md-toolbar inside a card, than create a md-toolbar-header with the same functionality (the <img /> tag does this as well inside a card for the header image).

md-card > md-toolbar {
    margin: -24px 0 24px -24px;
    width: calc(100% + 48px);
}

<md-card>
  <md-toolbar color="primary">
    <span>Title</span>
  </md-toolbar>
  <md-card-content>
  ...

Edit: I think padding should not be applied to md-card, but to the md-card-content, md-card-title, md-card-footer components. This is the way it is done in material1, and this way you can put md-toolbars, md-lists and other 100% width elements inside a card.

@TimKlein87 thanks for the response. I have implemented something similar, but I expect material to offer some functionality for this.

And you are right that an md-toolbar could be automatically aligned, without a md-card-header, but I thought that a md-card-header would be more generic, so we could place anything there and not only a md-toolbar. It would also be more consistend.

Maybe someone wants to use a huge md-card and wants to have md-toolbar subheadings. Your approach would break that.

[littleninja]

I'm confused, md-card-header is documented for MdCard as of today (a new version, alpha.10, was released just yesterday).

https://github.com/angular/material2/blob/master/src/lib/card/README.md

Preset layouts

You can also leverage preset layouts that format some of the sections together.

<md-card-header>

Formats the following sections into a header:

<md-card-title>: title to format within header
<md-card-subtitle>: subtitle to format within header
<img md-card-avatar>: image to use for avatar

[chouclee]

@TimKlein87 Do you happen to know how to change the height of the toolbar in an Overlay?
Using

md-card > md-toolbar {
  margin: -24px 0 24px -24px;
  width: calc(100% + 48px);
  height: 40px;
  min-height: 40px;
}

could change the height of md-toolbar. But I couldn't find a way to overwrite the height of md-toolbar-row within a component. ( I could only achieve this by overwriting the style in app's global style file)

[michaeljota]

Why this is still opened?

[dahaupt]

@michaeljota Most likely because of the fact that the team is not currently working on it, but it has been considered as good for the future.

[michaeljota]

@dahaupt as @littleninja said (six months ago) this feature it's already implemented. I don't think they used this to track the implementation of that feature. So... Why this is still opened?

[dahaupt]

@michaeljota It is not implemented because the md-card-header currently doesn't act like a md-toolbar, with a possibility to get a full-width background color. I think they've finished working on md-card until other components are done. Once that is done, they will continue to work on these nice to have features.

I.e. I wanted to have a md-card, with a md-toolbar as header.

[michaeljota]

Then you should just add a Toolbar. They are different components, why they should do something like this? Is it in the Material Specification guide or something? If so, please, share the link. 2017-03-30 15:35 GMT-04:00 Daniel H. <notifications@github.com>:

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[lsaudon]

It looks very much like what he wants.
https://material.io/guidelines/components/cards.html#cards-actions

Avatar, Title, and Subtitle area

Height: 72dp
Left and right padding: 16dp
Top and bottom padding: 16dp

I have the impression the padding is for the header not for the card.

[skofgar]

@michaeljota I think updating the components/cards with a few more details and examples would be incredibly helpful. Currently it is not that straight forward on how it should be used. Actually I am working on wrapping my head around it myself. As soon as I understand it better I might give it a try to contribute to the documentation myself.

[peluprvi]

What if there is no subheader? I didn't find this on the specs.
On lists, the title go to the middle (vertically).

[maxime1992]

It would be really nice to have official support for that and avoid all the css tweaks to achieve the result.

I know the team have other considerations and a lot of work is done, no worries 👌