MessageComponent
The Message
component displays a message with additional information such as sender and date, and enables interaction with the message (for example edit or react).
Example 1 - example message:
Example 2 - message with reactions:
Example 3 - message actions:
Customization
The message list uses the Message
component to display messages, if you want to replace that with your own custom component, you can do that by providing it to the CustomTemplatesService
. It’s also possible to just override parts of the message component.
The Message
component uses the DateParserService
to create user-friendly dates, you can override the date-parsing methods with your own functions.
The MessageService
has additional customization options.
If you want to build your own Message
component, you might find the following building blocks useful:
Avatar
The Message
component uses the Avatar
component to display the sender’s photo.
Message actions
The Message
component uses the MessageActionsBox
component to enable interaction with the message (edit).
Message reactions
The Message
component uses the MessageReactions
component to display reactions of a message, and enable reacting to a message.
Attachments
The Message
component uses the AttachmentList
component to display the attachments of the message.
Read by
The Message
component uses the listUsers
utility function to display the list of people who have read a particular message in a user friendly way (for example Bob, Sophie, Jack, Rose, John and 1 more).
Loading indicator
The Message
component uses the LoadingIndicator
component to display a spinner while the message is being sent.
Icons
The Message
component uses the Icon
component to display icons.
Mention template
You can add interactions to mentions inside a message, follow our mention actions guide to get to know more.
Inputs and outputs
message
message: undefined
| StreamMessage
<DefaultStreamChatGenerics
>
The message to be displayed
Defined in
projects/stream-chat-angular/src/lib/message/message.component.ts:65
enabledMessageActions
enabledMessageActions: string
[] = []
The list of channel capabilities that are enabled for the current user, the list of supported interactions can be found in our message interaction guide. Unathorized actions won’t be displayed on the UI. The MessageList
component automatically sets this based on channel capabilities.
Defined in
projects/stream-chat-angular/src/lib/message/message.component.ts:69
isLastSentMessage
isLastSentMessage: undefined
| boolean
If true
, the message status (sending, sent, who read the message) is displayed.
Defined in
projects/stream-chat-angular/src/lib/message/message.component.ts:73
mode
mode: "main"
| "thread"
= 'main'
Determines if the message is being dispalyed in a channel or in a thread.
Defined in
projects/stream-chat-angular/src/lib/message/message.component.ts:77
isHighlighted
isHighlighted: boolean
= false
Highlighting is used to add visual emphasize to a message when jumping to the message
Defined in
projects/stream-chat-angular/src/lib/message/message.component.ts:81
scroll$
Optional
scroll$: Observable
<void
>
An Observable that emits when the message list is scrolled, it’s used to prevent opening the message menu while scroll is in progress
Defined in
projects/stream-chat-angular/src/lib/message/message.component.ts:85