Angular Spinner Component

Spinner

Indicate the loading state of a component or page with CoreUI Angular spinners.

Available in Other JavaScript Frameworks

CoreUI Angular Spinner Component is also available for Bootstrap, React, and Vue. Explore framework-specific implementations below:

About

CoreUI “spinners” can be used to show the loading state in your projects. They’re built only with HTML and CSS, meaning you don’t need any JavaScript to create them. You will, however, need some custom JavaScript to toggle their visibility. Their appearance, alignment, and sizing can be easily customized with our amazing utility classes.

For accessibility purposes, each loader here includes role="status" and a nested

<span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>

Examples

Border spinner

Use the border spinners for a lightweight loading indicator.

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

@Component({
  selector: 'docs-spinner-border',
  templateUrl: './spinner-border.component.html',
  imports: [SpinnerComponent]
})
export class SpinnerBorderComponent {}
<c-spinner />
<c-spinner>
  <span class="visually-hidden">Loading status...</span>
</c-spinner>

Colors

The border spinner uses currentColor for its border-color. You can use any of our text color utilities on the standard spinner.

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

@Component({
  selector: 'docs-spinner-colors',
  templateUrl: './spinner-colors.component.html',
  imports: [SpinnerComponent]
})
export class SpinnerColorsComponent {}
<c-spinner color="primary" />
<c-spinner color="secondary" />
<c-spinner color="success" />
<c-spinner color="danger" />
<c-spinner color="warning" />
<c-spinner color="info" />
<c-spinner color="light" />
<c-spinner color="dark" />

Growing spinner

If you don’t fancy a border spinner, switch to the grow spinner. While it doesn’t technically spin, it does repeatedly grow!.

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

@Component({
  selector: 'docs-spinner-growing',
  templateUrl: './spinner-growing.component.html',
  imports: [SpinnerComponent]
})
export class SpinnerGrowingComponent {}
<c-spinner variant="grow" />

Once again, this spinner is built with currentColor, so you can easily change its appearance. Here it is with supported variants.

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

@Component({
  selector: 'docs-spinner-growing-2',
  templateUrl: './spinner-growing-2.component.html',
  imports: [SpinnerComponent]
})
export class SpinnerGrowing2Component {}
<c-spinner color="primary" variant="grow" />
<c-spinner color="secondary" variant="grow" />
<c-spinner color="success" variant="grow" />
<c-spinner color="danger" variant="grow" />
<c-spinner color="warning" variant="grow" />
<c-spinner color="info" variant="grow" />
<c-spinner color="light" variant="grow" />
<c-spinner color="dark" variant="grow" />

Size

Add size="sm" property to make a smaller spinner that can quickly be used within other components.

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

@Component({
  selector: 'docs-spinner-size',
  templateUrl: './spinner-size.component.html',
  imports: [SpinnerComponent]
})
export class SpinnerSizeComponent {}
<c-spinner size="sm" />
<c-spinner size="sm" variant="grow" />

Buttons

Use spinners within buttons to indicate an action is currently processing or taking place. You may also swap the text out of the spinner element and utilize button text as needed.

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { ButtonDirective, SpinnerComponent } from '@coreui/angular';

@Component({
  selector: 'docs-spinner-buttons',
  templateUrl: './spinner-buttons.component.html',
  imports: [ButtonDirective, SpinnerComponent]
})
export class SpinnerButtonsComponent {}
<button cButton class="m-1" disabled>
  <c-spinner aria-hidden="true" size="sm" />
</button>
<button cButton class="m-1" disabled>
  <c-spinner aria-hidden="true" size="sm" />
  Loading...
</button>
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { ButtonDirective, SpinnerComponent } from '@coreui/angular';

@Component({
  selector: 'docs-spinner-buttons-2',
  templateUrl: './spinner-buttons-2.component.html',
  imports: [ButtonDirective, SpinnerComponent]
})
export class SpinnerButtons2Component {}
<button cButton class="m-1" disabled>
  <c-spinner aria-hidden="true" size="sm" variant="grow" />
</button>
<button cButton class="m-1" disabled>
  <c-spinner aria-hidden="true" size="sm" variant="grow" />
  Loading...
</button>

API reference

Spinner Module

import { SpinnerModule } from '@coreui/angular';

@NgModule({
    imports: [SpinnerModule,]
})
export class AppModule() { }

c-spinner

component

jsx
import { SpinnerComponent } from '@coreui/angular'
PropertyDefaultType
color-string

Sets the color context of the component to one of CoreUI’s themed colors.

label'Loading...'string

Label for accessibility.

role'status'string

Default role attr for spinner

size-'sm'

Size the component small.

variant'border''border', 'grow'

Set the button variant to an outlined button or a ghost button.