Dialog

Dialog is a container to display content in an overlay window.


import { DialogModule } from 'primeng/dialog';

Dialog is used as a container and visibility is controlled with visible property.


<p-button (click)="showDialog()" label="Show" />
<p-dialog header="Edit Profile" [modal]="true" [(visible)]="visible" [style]="{ width: '25rem' }">
    <span class="p-text-secondary block mb-5">Update your information.</span>
    <div class="flex align-items-center gap-3 mb-3">
        <label for="username" class="font-semibold w-6rem">Username</label>
        <input pInputText id="username" class="flex-auto" autocomplete="off" />
    </div>
    <div class="flex align-items-center gap-3 mb-5">
        <label for="email" class="font-semibold w-6rem">Email</label>
        <input pInputText id="email" class="flex-auto" autocomplete="off" />
    </div>
    <div class="flex justify-content-end gap-2">
        <p-button label="Cancel" severity="secondary" (click)="visible = false" />
        <p-button label="Save" (click)="visible = false" />
    </div>
</p-dialog>

Dialog can be customized using header and footer templates.


<p-button (click)="showDialog()" label="Show" />
<p-dialog 
    header="Header" 
    [(visible)]="visible" 
    [modal]="true" 
    [style]="{ width: '25rem' }">
        <ng-template pTemplate="header">
            <div class="inline-flex align-items-center justify-content-center gap-2">
                <p-avatar 
                    image="https://primefaces.org/cdn/primeng/images/demo/avatar/amyelsner.png" 
                    shape="circle" />
                <span class="font-bold white-space-nowrap">
                    Amy Elsner
                </span>
            </div>
        </ng-template>
        <span class="p-text-secondary block mb-5">Update your information.</span>
        <div class="flex align-items-center gap-3 mb-3">
            <label for="username" class="font-semibold w-6rem">
                Username
            </label>
            <input pInputText id="username" class="flex-auto" autocomplete="off" />
        </div>
        <div class="flex align-items-center gap-3 mb-5">
            <label for="email" class="font-semibold w-6rem">Email</label>
            <input pInputText id="email" class="flex-auto" autocomplete="off" />
        </div>
        <ng-template pTemplate="footer">
            <p-button 
                label="Cancel" 
                [text]="true" 
                severity="secondary" 
                (click)="visible = false" />
            <p-button 
                label="Save" 
                [outlined]="true" 
                severity="secondary" 
                (click)="visible = false" 
              />
        </ng-template>
</p-dialog>

The position property is used to display a Dialog at all edges and corners of the screen.


<div class="flex flex-wrap gap-2">
    <p-button 
        (click)="showDialog('left')" 
        icon="pi pi-arrow-right" 
        label="Left" 
        severity="secondary" />
    <p-button 
        (click)="showDialog('right')" 
        icon="pi pi-arrow-left" 
        label="Right" 
        severity="secondary" />
</div>
<div class="flex flex-wrap gap-2">
    <p-button 
        (click)="showDialog('top-left')" 
        icon="pi pi-arrow-down-right" 
        label="TopLeft" 
        severity="secondary" />
    <p-button 
        (click)="showDialog('top')"
        icon="pi pi-arrow-down" 
        label="Top" 
        severity="secondary" />
    <p-button 
        (click)="showDialog('top-right')" 
        icon="pi pi-arrow-down-left" 
        label="TopRight" 
        severity="secondary" />
</div>
<div class="flex flex-wrap gap-2">
    <p-button 
        (click)="showDialog('bottom-left')" 
        icon="pi pi-arrow-up-right" 
        label="BottomLeft" 
        severity="secondary" />
    <p-button 
        (click)="showDialog('bottom')" 
        icon="pi pi-arrow-up" 
        label="Bottom" 
        severity="secondary" />
    <p-button 
        (click)="showDialog('bottom-right')" 
        icon="pi pi-arrow-up-left" 
        label="BottomRight" 
        severity="secondary" />
</div>
<p-dialog 
    header="Edit Profile" 
    [modal]="true"
    [(visible)]="visible" 
    [position]="position" 
    [style]="{ width: '25rem' }">
        <span class="p-text-secondary block mb-5">
            Update your information.
        </span>
        <div class="flex align-items-center gap-3 mb-3">
            <label for="username" class="font-semibold w-6rem">
                Username
            </label>
            <input pInputText id="username" class="flex-auto" autocomplete="off" />
        </div>
        <div class="flex align-items-center gap-3 mb-5">
            <label for="email" class="font-semibold w-6rem">
                Email
            </label>
            <input pInputText id="email" class="flex-auto" autocomplete="off" />
        </div>
        <div class="flex justify-content-end gap-2">
            <p-button label="Cancel" severity="secondary" (click)="visible = false" />
            <p-button label="Save" (click)="visible = false" />
        </div>
</p-dialog>

Setting maximizable property to true enables the full screen mode.


<p-button (click)="showDialog()" label="Show" />
<p-dialog 
    header="Header" 
    [modal]="true"
    [(visible)]="visible" 
    [style]="{ width: '50rem' }" 
    [breakpoints]="{ '1199px': '75vw', '575px': '90vw' }" 
    [maximizable]="true">
        <p>
            Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit...
        </p>
</p-dialog>

Dialog automatically displays a scroller when content exceeeds viewport.


<p-button (click)="showDialog()" label="Show" />
<p-dialog 
    header="Header" 
    [modal]="true"
    [(visible)]="visible" 
    [style]="{ width: '50rem' }" 
    [breakpoints]="{ '1199px': '75vw', '575px': '90vw' }">
        <p class="mb-5">
            Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...
        </p>
        <p class="mb-5">
            "Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium...
        </p>
        <p class="mb-5">
            At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos...
        </p>
        <p class="mb-5">
            Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit...
        </p>
        <p class="mb-5">
            "Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium...
        </p>
        <p>
            At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos...
        </p>
</p-dialog>

Mask layer behind the Dialog is configured with the modal property. By default, no modal layer is added.


<p-button (click)="showDialog()" label="Show" />
<p-dialog header="Edit Profile" [(visible)]="visible" [style]="{ width: '25rem' }">
    <span class="p-text-secondary block mb-5">Update your information.</span>
    <div class="flex align-items-center gap-3 mb-3">
        <label for="username" class="font-semibold w-6rem">Username</label>
        <input pInputText id="username" class="flex-auto" autocomplete="off" />
    </div>
    <div class="flex align-items-center gap-3 mb-5">
        <label for="email" class="font-semibold w-6rem">Email</label>
        <input pInputText id="email" class="flex-auto" autocomplete="off" />
    </div>
    <div class="flex justify-content-end gap-2">
        <p-button label="Cancel" severity="secondary" (click)="visible = false" />
        <p-button label="Save" (click)="visible = false" />
    </div>
</p-dialog>

Dialog width can be adjusted per screen size with the breakpoints option where a key defines the max-width for the breakpoint and value for the corresponding width. When no breakpoint matches width defined in style property is used.


<p-button (click)="showDialog()" label="Show" />
<p-dialog 
    header="Header" 
    [(visible)]="visible" 
    [modal]="true" 
    [breakpoints]="{ '1199px': '75vw', '575px': '90vw' }" 
    [style]="{ width: '50vw' }" 
    [draggable]="false" 
    [resizable]="false">
        <p>
            Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...
        </p>
</p-dialog>

Headless mode allows you to customize the entire user interface instead of the default elements.


<p-button (click)="showDialog()" icon="pi pi-user" label="Login" />
<p-dialog [(visible)]="visible">
    <ng-template pTemplate="headless">
        <div class="flex flex-column px-8 py-5 gap-4" style="border-radius: 12px; background-image: radial-gradient(circle at left top, var(--primary-400), var(--primary-700))">
            <svg width="33" height="35" viewBox="0 0 33 35" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="block mx-auto">
                <path d="M15.1934 0V0V0L0.0391235 5.38288L2.35052 25.3417L15.1934 32.427V32.427V32.427L28.0364 25.3417L30.3478 5.38288L15.1934 0Z" fill="var(--primary-color)" />
                <mask id="mask0_1_36" style="mask-type:luminance" maskUnits="userSpaceOnUse" x="0" y="0" width="31" height="33">
                    <path d="M15.1934 0V0V0L0.0391235 5.38288L2.35052 25.3417L15.1934 32.427V32.427V32.427L28.0364 25.3417L30.3478 5.38288L15.1934 0Z" fill="var(--primary-color-text)" />
                </mask>
                <g mask="url(#mask0_1_36)">
                    <path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M15.1935 0V3.5994V3.58318V20.0075V20.0075V32.427V32.427L28.0364 25.3417L30.3478 5.38288L15.1935 0Z" fill="var(--primary-color)" />
                </g>
                <path d="M19.6399 15.3776L18.1861 15.0547L19.3169 16.6695V21.6755L23.1938 18.4458V12.9554L21.4169 13.6013L19.6399 15.3776Z" fill="var(--primary-color-text)" />
                <path d="M10.5936 15.3776L12.0474 15.0547L10.9166 16.6695V21.6755L7.03966 18.4458V12.9554L8.81661 13.6013L10.5936 15.3776Z" fill="var(--primary-color-text)" />
                <path
                    fill-rule="evenodd"
                    clip-rule="evenodd"
                    d="M11.3853 16.9726L12.6739 15.0309L13.4793 15.5163H16.7008L17.5061 15.0309L18.7947 16.9726V24.254L17.8283 25.7103L16.7008 26.843H13.4793L12.3518 25.7103L11.3853 24.254V16.9726Z"
                    fill="var(--primary-color-text)"
                />
                <path d="M19.3168 24.7437L21.4168 22.6444V20.5451L19.3168 22.3214V24.7437Z" fill="var(--primary-color-text)" />
                <path d="M10.9166 24.7437L8.81662 22.6444V20.5451L10.9166 22.3214V24.7437Z" fill="var(--primary-color-text)" />
                <path
                    fill-rule="evenodd"
                    clip-rule="evenodd"
                    d="M13.0167 5.68861L11.7244 8.7568L13.8244 14.8932H14.7936V5.68861H13.0167ZM15.4397 5.68861V14.8932H16.5706L18.5091 8.7568L17.2167 5.68861H15.4397Z"
                    fill="var(--primary-color-text)"
                />
                <path d="M13.8244 14.8932L6.87813 12.3094L5.90888 8.27235L11.8859 8.7568L13.9859 14.8932H13.8244Z" fill="var(--primary-color-text)" />
                <path d="M16.5706 14.8932L23.5169 12.3094L24.4861 8.27235L18.3476 8.7568L16.4091 14.8932H16.5706Z" fill="var(--primary-color-text)" />
                <path d="M18.8321 8.27235L22.2245 7.94938L19.9629 5.68861H17.7013L18.8321 8.27235Z" fill="var(--primary-color-text)" />
                <path d="M11.4013 8.27235L8.00893 7.94938L10.2705 5.68861H12.5321L11.4013 8.27235Z" fill="var(--primary-color-text)" />
            </svg>
            <div class="inline-flex flex-column gap-2">
                <label for="username" class="text-primary-50 font-semibold">Username</label>
                <input pInputText id="username" class="bg-white-alpha-20 border-none p-3 text-primary-50"/>
            </div>
            <div class="inline-flex flex-column gap-2">
                <label for="password" class="text-primary-50 font-semibold">Password</label>
                <input pInputText id="password" class="bg-white-alpha-20 border-none p-3 text-primary-50" type="password"/>
            </div>
            <div class="flex align-items-center gap-2">
                <p-button label="Sign-In" (click)="closeDialog()" [text]="true" styleClass="p-3 w-full text-primary-50 border-1 border-white-alpha-30 hover:bg-white-alpha-10" class="w-full"  />
                <p-button label="Cancel" (click)="closeDialog()" [text]="true"  styleClass="p-3 w-full text-primary-50 border-1 border-white-alpha-30 hover:bg-white-alpha-10" class="w-full" />
            </div>
        </div>
    </ng-template>
</p-dialog>

Following is the list of structural style classes, for theming classes visit theming page.

NameElement
p-dialogContainer element
p-dialog-titlebarContainer of header.
p-dialog-titleHeader element.
p-dialog-titlebar-iconIcon container inside header.
p-dialog-titlebar-closeClose icon element.
p-dialog-contentContent element.
p-dialog-footerFooter element.

Screen Reader

Dialog component uses dialog role along with aria-labelledby referring to the header element however any attribute is passed to the root element so you may use aria-labelledby to override this default behavior. In addition aria-modal is added since focus is kept within the popup.

It is recommended to use a trigger component that can be accessed with keyboard such as a button, if not adding tabIndex would be necessary.

Trigger element also requires aria-expanded and aria-controls to be handled explicitly.

Close element is a button with an aria-label that refers to the aria.close property of the locale API by default, you may usecloseButtonProps to customize the element and override the default aria-label.


<p-button
    icon="pi pi-external-link" 
    (click)="visible = true" 
    aria-controls="{{visible ? 'dialog' : null}}" 
    aria-expanded="{{visible ? true : false}}" />
    
<p-dialog 
    id="dialog" 
    header="Header" 
    [(visible)]="visible" 
    [style]="{ width: '50vw' }" 
    (onHide)="visible = false">
        <p>Content</p>
</p-dialog>

Overlay Keyboard Support

KeyFunction
tabMoves focus to the next the focusable element within the dialog.
shift + tabMoves focus to the previous the focusable element within the dialog.
escapeCloses the dialog if closeOnEscape is true.

Close Button Keyboard Support

KeyFunction
enterCloses the dialog.
spaceCloses the dialog.