MD-SIDENAV - Pinned and backdrop options - Feature request

[joejordanbrown]

Feature request:

Add pinned option with setting option for it to be pinned when view is desktop.

The material design specifications for Desktop structure of the sidenav say "accessed temporarily or pinned for permanent display."

Is there going to be an option for this?

Also i think the backdrop should be allowed to be disabled manually or automatically when pinned.

[jelbourn]

You can bind the opened state to always be true. More responsive feature will be coming in the future. mode="side" doesn't have a backdrop.

[Dunos]

@jelbourn what about the backdrop, how can we disable it manually? I need to use the "over" mode but without any backdrop, or at least add one more more to cover that case.

[willshowell]

@Dunos try adding this to your global stylesheet

.mat-sidenav-backdrop.mat-sidenav-shown {
 background: none;
}

[Dunos]

@willshowell I tried that before but I don't think changing the CSS should be the right approach to this, specially when in the AngularJS version there was a parameter to do so md-disable-backdrop. Also in the same project could be 2 or 3 different types of sidenavs and so you would have to use the /deep/ styles in the CSS. One single param in the constructor seems much "cleaner" to me (or just one more mode).

[willshowell]

I see, maybe open a separate new issue similar to #2806. That seems to be similar behavior as to what you're looking for.

[Dunos]

Thanks, I did open a new one like suggested.

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