Introduction

The Material Design Lite (MDL) chip component is a small, interactive element. Chips are commonly used for contacts, text, rules, icons, and photos.

TO INCLUDE AN MDL CHIP COMPONENT:

 1. Create a container element for the chip; typically <span> and <div> are used, but any container element should work equally well. If you need interactivity, use a <button>, or add the tabindex attribute to your container.

<span>
</span>

 2. Add in the text wrapper and the MDL classes.

<span class="mdl-chip">
    <span class="mdl-chip__text">Chip Text</span>
</span>

 3. For deletable chips, add in the delete icon. This can be an <a>, <button> or non-interactive tags like <span>.

<span class="mdl-chip">
    <span class="mdl-chip__text">Chip Text</span>
    <a href="#" class="mdl-chip__action"><i class="material-icons">cancel</i></a>
</span>

 4. Contact chips need to have the mdl-chip--contact class added to the container, along with another container for the contact icon. The icon container for photos is typically an <img> tag, but other types of content can be used with a little extra supporting css.

<span class="mdl-chip">
    <span class="mdl-chip__contact mdl-color--teal mdl-color-text--white">A</span>
    <span class="mdl-chip__text">Chip Text</span>
    <a href="#" class="mdl-chip__action"><i class="material-icons">cancel</i></a>
</span>

Examples

A button based contact chip whose contact image is a <span> with a background-image.

<style>
    .demo-chip .mdl-chip__contact {
        background-image: url("./path/to/image");
        background-size: cover;
    }
</style>

<button class="mdl-chip demo-chip">
    <span class="mdl-chip__contact">&nbsp;</span>
    <span class="mdl-chip__text">Chip Text</span>
    <a href="#" class="mdl-chip__action"><i class="material-icons">cancel</i></a>
</button>

CSS Classes