How to fix position of mat-select-panel in Angular Material

Question

I have a project in which I use Angular Material Components and I would like to customize mat-select. I want to achieve select input which mat-select-panel looks like it's dropdown as in native html select. I accomplished good effect using only CSS styles but I have one problem.

The problem is that my mat-select looks different depending on the size of the browser window. More specifically, mat-form-field and mat-select-panel sometimes are not aligned (there left sides are not in line) and this is not acceptable in my project.

This link is how it should look (example: Firefox browser, window size 100%):

This link is what I want to fix(example: Firefox browser, window size 90%):

My predictions why it does not work: mat-select-panel has a position absolute and is set to position depending on cdk-overlay-panel. Cdk-overlay-panel position is calculated dynamically. Sometimes fractional width and height values are truncated and hence the difference of one pixel between mat-form-field and mat-select-panel. This is an example:

What I want to achieve? I am looking for a way to make my input always look good regardless of the browser window size. Line between mat-form-field and mat-select-panel must always be straight.

Stackblitz for my input is here: a link

Akber Iqbal Akber Iqbal · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-29T06:22:21

Love the attention to detail in your observation... I've had a customer with such an eye also :) ... on checking your stackblitz, we observe the following which is a bigger issue which needs resolution:

Commented your CSS .container>*{ position: absolute; top: 30vh; left: 30vw; } with the following to observe the effect of mis-aligned few pixels on zooming in/out on the browser:

.myMatOptions{  position: absolute;  top: 30vh;  left: 30vw; }
::ng-deep .cdk-overlay-container{left: 30vw;}
::ng-deep .cdk-overlay-pane { left:0 !important; transform:none !important;}
::ng-deep .mat-select-panel{left: 0}

on a zoom of 80%, we see:

on a zoom of 90%, we see a minor mis-alignment in the rendered output:

on a zoom of 100%, we see:

on a zoom of 110%, we see a minor mis-alignment in the rendered output:

on a zoom of 125%, we see:

These minor visual issues (on 90% and 110%) are on the rendered output - the css behind these is exact so there is nothing fundamental to resolve. working stackblitz here

How to fix position of mat-select-panel in Angular Material

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