Tailwind CSS

  • Last Updated : 10 Mar, 2023

Tailwind CSS is basically a Utility first CSS framework for building rapid custom UI. It is a highly customizable, low-level CSS framework that gives you all of the building blocks that you need. Also, it is a cool way to write inline styling and achieve an awesome interface without writing a single line of your own CSS.

Tailwind CSS Tutorial

 

Why Tailwind CSS ?

As we know there are many CSS frameworks but people always choose the fast and easy framework to learn and use in the project. Tailwind has come with inbuilt a lot of features and styles for users to choose from and is also used to reduce the tendency of writing CSS code and create a beautiful custom UI. It will help you to overcome the complicated task. Tailwind CSS creates small utilities with a defined set of options enabling easy integration of existing classes directly into the HTML code.

 

Tailwind CSS CDN Link:

<link href=”https://unpkg.com/tailwindcss@^1.0/dist/tailwind.min.css” rel=”stylesheet”>

Note: There are some limitations when CDN is used. Some of them are:

  • Customize Tailwind’s default theme can’t be used
  • Directives like @apply, @variants, etc can’t be used
  • Can’t install third-party plugins

Installation of Tailwind CSS:

Through npm:

  • Basically Tailwind is available on npm and you can install it using the following command:

    npm install tailwindcss

  • After that create ad Tailwind configuration file using the following command:

    npm tailwind init {name of file}

Through yarn:

  • You can install tailwind by using the yarn command:

    yarn add tailwindcss

  • After that create ad Tailwind configuration file using the following command:

    yarn tailwind init {name of file}

Example: It is a basic example of Tailwind CSS that describes how to change the background color on mouse hover.

Tailwind CSS

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <!-- Tailwind CSS CDN link -->
    <link href=
"https://unpkg.com/tailwindcss@^2/dist/tailwind.min.css" 
          rel="stylesheet">
</head>

<body>
    <div class="h-full border-2 border-gray-200
                border-opacity-60 rounded-lg
                overflow-hidden">

        <div class="p-6 hover:bg-green-600
                    hover:text-white transition
                    duration-300 ease-in">

            <h1 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-3">
                Hover
            </h1>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>

</html>

Output:
Tailwind

Advantages:

  • Highly Customizable.
  • Enables building complex responsive layout.
  • Responsive and development is easy.
  • Components creation is easy.

Disadvantages:

  • There are missing headers, and navigation components.
  • It takes time to learn how to implement inbuilt classes.
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