Are Layout Directives supported by Angular 2 Material Design Components?

January 2017 Update:

Angular 2 team recently added a new NPM package flex-layout for layout only. It is a separate package independent of angular material.
The full instructions are available in the github page README.

Install the module:

npm install @angular/flex-layout -save

In app.module.ts (or equivalent), declare the module:

import {FlexLayoutModule} from "@angular/flex-layout";@NgModule({  imports: [      ...     FlexLayoutModule  ],  ...})

Markup example:

<div class="flex-container"      fxLayout="row"      fxLayout.xs="column"     fxLayoutAlign="center center"     fxLayoutAlign.xs="start">  <div class="flex-item" fxFlex="20%" fxFlex.xs="40%">  </div>  <div class="flex-item" fxFlex>        </div>  <div class="flex-item" fxFlex="25px"> </div></div>

Here is a plunker sample taken from the flex-layout github page.

Original Answer:

The docs you are referring to are for angular1 material. Angular2 material still doesn't have any layout directives.

You can easily create the directive yourself in a simple way.

All you need to know:

layout="row" is same as style="display:flex;flex-direction:row"
layout="column" => style="display:flex;flex-direction:column"

And flex is equal to style="flex:1"

As directives:

@Directive({  selector:'[layout]'})export class LayoutDirective{  @Input() layout:string;  @HostBinding('style.display') display = 'flex';  @HostBinding('style.flex-direction')  get direction(){       return (this.layout === 'column') ? 'column':'row';  }}

The flex directive, use it like: <div flex> or <div flex="10"> any number from 0 - 100%. Also, just for fun, I added shrink and grow inputs

@Directive({  selector:'[flex]'})export class FlexDirective{    @Input() shrink:number = 1;    @Input() grow:number = 1;    @Input() flex:string;    @HostBinding('style.flex')    get style(){        return `${this.grow} ${this.shrink} ${this.flex === '' ? '0':this.flex}%`;    }}

To use them everywhere without adding them to each component:

@NgModule({  imports:      [ BrowserModule ],  declarations: [ AppComponent,FlexDirective ,LayoutDirective ],  bootstrap:    [ AppComponent ]})export class AppModule { }

Here is a sample in plunk

No need to write a new directive until Material2 provide us the LayoutModule.

You just have to import the angular layouts-attributes.css from angular1.It takes the old directive as css selector.

require('node_modules/angular-material/modules/layouts/angular-material.layouts-attributes.css')

for example the css for directive layout-align="end" it use the cssselector: [layout-align="end"]

Another option is to use angular2-polymer in order to pull in Polymer's iron-flex-layout. It is slightly more limited and has a slightly different API than the Material 1 layout (but the Material 2 layout will also have a different API). But it works now and is supported.

There is also a guide here.