Top Tailwind Classes You Don't Know About
March 15, 2024
Here are some tailwind css classes that goes beyond mapping directly to CSS
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Introduction
If you're reading this, you definitely know TailwindCss. However, do you know they're Tailwind CSS classes that adds more feature than just a single feature in css ? Here's a list of some I know of:
Sizes
Have you ever built a component that has same width and height? With sizes, you don't have to set both.
Use case
<div class="size-20 bg-orange-100 rounded-lg my-4">
</div>
Divide
This utility allows you to control the border width between elements. You can set Divide for both the x and y axis. You can also make it solid , dotted , sliced and everything you can do to borders.
Use case
<div class=" divide-y-4 divide-x-8 divide-orange-500">
<div class="bg-red-500 size-20 m-4 rounded-xl"></div>
<div class="bg-red-500 size-20 m-4 rounded-xl"></div>
<div class="bg-red-500 size-20 m-4 rounded-xl"></div>
<div class="bg-red-500 size-20 m-4 rounded-xl"></div>
</div>
Line Clamp
Utilities for clamping text to a specific number of lines.
Use case
<p class="px-4 line-clamp-2">
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</p>
Note: You can use the truncate utility to make your text never go more than one line long.
Gradients
TailwindCss makes it easy to specify where the colors start , their percentages, and even allows you to place a color in between using the via utility. You use the bg-gradient to pick the direction, the from to pick the starting point, via to pick the color in between and to for the last color. You can also set percentages for each of them.
Use case
<div class="h-48 w-full rounded-xl bg-gradient-to-bl from-pink-600 via-purple-700 to-orange-500 from-40%">
</div>
Screen Readers
Utilities for improving accessibility with screen readers. You can use sr-only for screen readers only and not-sr-only to remove sr-only.
Group
With the group class , you can style children components when their parent is hovered, active, etc.
Use case
<div class="group m-8 size-40 rounded-xl bg-black p-4">
<div class="size-20 rounded-lg bg-orange-500 group-hover:bg-pink-700">
</div>
</div>
Note: You can name the groups using group/thename and there's a lot you can do with Group apart from hover. Here's a list of the major ones:
- Group-even
- Group-odd
- Group-focus
- Group-active
- Group-target
- Group-checked
Conclusion
To learn more you can check out the Tailwind docs. You can research about Ring, Animation Typography (for markdown) etc. If you have corrections to make to this article, please feel free to express them in the comment.
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