Blazor Avatar

    The Ignite UI for Blazor Avatar helps to display initials, images, or icons in your application.

    Blazor Icon Avatar Example

    Usage

    Before using the IgbAvatar, you need to register it as follows:

    // in Program.cs file

builder.Services.AddIgniteUIBlazor(typeof(IgbAvatarModule));

    You will also need to link an additional CSS file to apply the styling to the IgbAvatar component. The following needs to be placed in the wwwroot/index.html file in a Blazor Web Assembly project or the Pages/_Host.cshtml file in a Blazor Server project:

    <link href="_content/IgniteUI.Blazor/themes/light/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet" />

    For a complete introduction to the Ignite UI for Blazor, read the Getting Started topic.

    The IgbAvatar is capable of displaying images, initials, or any other content, including icons. Declaring an IgbAvatar is as simple as:

    <IgbAvatar />

    The avatar has several attributes that allow rendering different content based on the context. The most basic way to display content in the boundaries of the avatar is to provide content between the opening and closing tags.

    <IgbAvatar>
  <IgbIcon Name="home" />
</IgbAvatar>

    Initials

    If the initials attribute is set all children elements of the avatar will be ignored and the string passed to this attribute will be displayed.

    <!-- Initials("AZ") will be displayed instead of the icon. -->

<IgbAvatar Initials="AZ">
  <IgbIcon Name="home" />
</IgbAvatar>

    Image

    The avatar can also display an image when the src attribute is assigned a valid URL to a static asset. In that case the initials value will be ignored and children elements will not be rendered.

    <IgbAvatar Initials="AZ"
           Src="https://static.infragistics.com/xplatform/images/people/GUY01.png"
           Alt="A photo of a man.">
  <IgbIcon Name="home" />
</IgbAvatar>

    Shape

    The avatar supports three shapes - circle, rounded, and square. The default shape of the avatar is square and it can be changed via the shape attribute.

    Size

    Apart from the shape, the size of the avatar can also be changed by utilizing the --ig-size CSS variable. The supported sizes are small (default), medium, and large. The following code snippet shows how to use a different component size:

    igc-avatar {
    --ig-size: var(--ig-size-large);
}

    Styling

    The avatar component exposes a base part that can be used to change all of its style properties.

    igc-avatar::part(base) {
  --size: 72px;
  color: olive;
  background: beige;
  border-radius: 20px;
}

    API References

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