Angular PrimeNG Avatar Sizes

Last Updated : 26 Apr, 2025

Angular PrimeNG is an open-source framework with a rich set of native Angular UI components that are used for great styling and this framework is used to make responsive websites with very much ease. Avatars are used to denote letters, icons, and images in different shapes and background colors.

This article will show us how to use the different Avatar sizes in Angular PrimeNG.

Angular PrimeNG Avatar Sizes Properties:

large: It denotes the size of the avatar to be large.
x-large: It denotes the size of the avatar to be x-large.

Approach: Let us create an Angular project and install the PrimeNG UI module. Then we will create a UI that will showcase Angular PrimeNG Avatar Sizes.

Step 1: To create an angular app, you need to install the angular by command line interface through npm command.

npm install -g angular-cli

Step 2: Now we will create a angular project.

ng new project_name

Step 3: After creating your react project, move into the folder to perform different operations.

cd project_name

Step 4: After creating the Angular application, Install the required module using the following command:

npm install primeng --save
npm install primeicons --save

Project Structure: After running the commands mentioned in the above steps, if you open the project in an editor you can see a similar project structure as shown below. The new component user makes or the code changes, we will be performing will be done in the source folder.

Project Structure

Step to Run Application: Run the application using the following command from the root directory of the project:

ng serve --open

Example 1: We are creating a UI that showsAngular PrimeNG Large Avatar Sizes.

app.component.html

<div style="margin:100px"> 
    <h2 style="color: green">GeeksforGeeks</h2> 
    <h3>Angular PrimeNG Avatar Large </h3> 
    <div class="d-flex ai-center" style="margin:20px"> 
        <p-avatar label="G" size="large" 
            [style]="{'background-color':'green',  
            'color': 'white', 'margin':'20px'}"> 
        </p-avatar> 
        <p-avatar label="F" size="large"></p-avatar> 
        <p-avatar label="G" size="large"
            [style]="{'background-color':'green',  
            'color': 'white','margin':'20px'}"> 
        </p-avatar> 
        <p-avatar icon="pi pi-code" size="large" 
            shape="circle"></p-avatar> 
    </div> 
</div>

app.module.ts

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core'; 
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser'; 
import { AvatarModule } from 'primeng/avatar'; 
import { AppComponent } from './app.component'; 
  
@NgModule({ 
    declarations: [ 
        AppComponent 
    ], 
    imports: [ 
        BrowserModule, 
        AvatarModule 
    ], 
    providers: [], 
    bootstrap: [AppComponent] 
}) 
export class AppModule { }

Output: Now open your browser and go to http://localhost:3000/, you will see the following output:

Example 2: We are creating a UI that shows Angular PrimeNG X large Avatar Sizes.

app.component.html

<div style="margin:100px"> 
    <h2 style="color: green">GeeksforGeeks</h2> 
    <h3>Angular PrimeNG Avatar X Large </h3> 
    <div class="d-flex ai-center" style="margin:20px"> 
        <p-avatar label="G" size="xlarge" 
            [style]="{'background-color':'green',  
            'color': 'white', 'margin':'20px'}"> 
        </p-avatar> 
        <p-avatar label="F" size="xlarge"></p-avatar> 
        <p-avatar label="G" size="xlarge" 
            [style]="{'background-color':'green',  
            'color': 'white','margin':'20px'}"> 
        </p-avatar> 
        <p-avatar icon="pi pi-code" size="xlarge"></p-avatar> 
    </div> 
</div>

app.module.ts

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core'; 
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser'; 
import { AvatarModule } from 'primeng/avatar'; 
import { AppComponent } from './app.component'; 
  
@NgModule({ 
    declarations: [ 
        AppComponent 
    ], 
    imports: [ 
        BrowserModule, 
        AvatarModule 
    ], 
    providers: [], 
    bootstrap: [AppComponent] 
}) 
export class AppModule { }