3 Things You Must Know To Make A Cart With Tailwind CSS

• What is Tailwind CSS?
• The description of Cart ui component
• Why use Tailwind CSS to build a Cart ui component?
• The preview of Cart ui component
• The source code of Cart ui component
• How to build a Cart with Tailwind CSS?
• Install tailwind css of verion 2.1.4
• All the unility class needed to build a Cart component
• 35 steps to build a Cart component with Tailwind CSS
• Conclusion

What is Tailwind CSS?

Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that focuses on creating personalized user interfaces quickly. It can gives you all the building blocks you are able to create personalized designs without having to fight to override irritating opinionated styles. Also, Tailwind CSS is a highly configurable, low-level CSS framework.

The description of Cart ui component

Ecommerce product cart

Why use Tailwind CSS to build a Cart ui component?

• It can make the building process of Cart ui component faster and more easily.
• Enables building complex responsive layouts and components freely.
• Minimum lines of CSS code in Cart component file.

The preview of Cart ui component

The source code of Cart ui component

<!-- font-awesome cdn -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.3/css/all.min.css" referrerpolicy="no-referrer" />


<div class="text-gray-800 text-xl text-center pt-4">Ecommerce Product Cart</div>
<div class="w-full h-screen flex justify-center items-center">
   <div>
        <div class="w-96">  
            <div class="shadow hover:shadow-lg transition duration-300 ease-in-out xl:mb-0 lg:mb-0 md:mb-0 mb-6 cursor-pointer group">
                <div class="overflow-hidden relative">
                <img class="w-full transition duration-700 ease-in-out group-hover:opacity-60" src="https://klbtheme.com/shopwise/fashion/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/product_img10-1.jpg" alt="image" />
                <div class="flex justify-center">
                    <div class="absolute bottom-4 transition duration-500 ease-in-out opacity-0 group-hover:opacity-100">
                        <a href="cart.html" class="bg-gray-700 px-3 py-3 hover:bg-red-500 transition duration-300 ease-in-out">
                            <i class="fas fa-shopping-cart transition duration-300 ease-in-out flex justify-center items-center text-gray-100"></i>
                        </a>
                        <a href="random.html" class="bg-gray-700 px-3 py-3 hover:bg-red-500 transition duration-300 ease-in-out">
                            <i class="fas fa-random transition duration-300 ease-in-out flex justify-center items-center text-gray-100"></i>
                        </a>
                        <a href="single_prod.html" class="bg-gray-700 px-3 py-3 hover:bg-red-500 transition duration-300 ease-in-out">
                            <i class="fas fa-search transition duration-300 ease-in-out flex justify-center items-center text-gray-100"></i>
                        </a>
                        <a href="cart.html" class="bg-gray-700 px-3 py-3 hover:bg-red-500 transition duration-300 ease-in-out">
                            <i class="fas fa-heart transition duration-300 ease-in-out flex justify-center items-center text-gray-100"></i>
                        </a>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div class="px-4 py-3 bg-white">
                <a href="#" class=""><h1 class="text-gray-800 font-semibold text-lg hover:text-red-500 transition duration-300 ease-in-out">White Line Dress</h1></a>
                <div class="flex py-2">
                    <p class="mr-2 text-xs text-gray-600">$45.00</p>
                        <p class="mr-2 text-xs text-red-600 line-through">$15.00</p>
                </div>
                <div class="flex">
                    <div class="">
                        <i class="fas fa-star text-yellow-400 text-xs"></i>
                        <i class="fas fa-star text-yellow-400 text-xs"></i>
                        <i class="fas fa-star text-yellow-400 text-xs"></i>
                        <i class="fas fa-star text-yellow-400 text-xs"></i>
                        <i class="far fa-star text-gray-400 text-xs"></i>
                    </div>
                    <div class="ml-2">
                        <p class="text-gray-500 font-medium text-sm">(1)</p>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
            </div>
       </div>
   </div>
</div>

How to build a Cart with Tailwind CSS?

Install tailwind css of verion 2.1.4

Use the script html tag to import the script of Tailwind CSS of the version 2.1.4

<script src="https://cdn.tailwindcss.com"></script>

All the unility class needed to build a Cart component

• text-gray-800
• text-xl
• text-center
• pt-4
• w-full
• h-screen
• flex
• w-96
• xl:mb-0
• lg:mb-0
• md:mb-0
• mb-6
• overflow-hidden
• relative
• absolute
• bottom-4
• bg-gray-700
• px-3
• py-3
• hover:bg-red-500
• text-gray-100
• px-4
• bg-white
• text-lg
• hover:text-red-500
• py-2
• mr-2
• text-xs
• text-gray-600
• text-red-600
• text-yellow-400
• text-gray-400
• ml-2
• text-gray-500
• text-sm

35 steps to build a Cart component with Tailwind CSS

1. Control the text color of an element to gray-800 using the text-gray-800 utilities.

2. Control the text color of an element to xl using the text-xl utilities.

3. Control the text color of an element to center using the text-center utilities.

4. Control the padding on top side of an element to 1rem using the pt-4 utilities.

5. Use w-full to set an element to a 100% based width.

6. Use h-screen to make an element span the entire height of the viewport.

7. Use flex to create a block-level flex container.

8. Use w-96 to set an element to a fixed width(24rem).

9. Control the margin on bottom side of an element to 0rem at only extremely large screen sizes using the xl:mb-0 utilities.

10. Control the margin on bottom side of an element to 0rem at only large screen sizes using the lg:mb-0 utilities.

11. Control the margin on bottom side of an element to 0rem at only medium screen sizes using the md:mb-0 utilities.

12. Control the margin on bottom side of an element to 1.5rem using the mb-6 utilities.

13. Use overflow-hidden to clip any content within an element that overflows the bounds of that element.

14. Use relative to position an element according to the normal flow of the document.

15. Use absolute to position an element outside of the normal flow of the document, causing neighboring elements to act as if the element doesn’t exist.

16. Use the bottom-4 utilities to set the bottom position of a positioned element to 1rem.

17. Control the background color of an element to gray-700 using the bg-gray-700 utilities.

18. Control the horizontal padding of an element to 0.75rem using the px-3 utilities.

19. Control the vertical padding of an element to 0.75rem using the py-3 utilities.

20. Control the background color of an element to red-500 using the hover:bg-red-500 utilities on hover.

21. Control the text color of an element to gray-100 using the text-gray-100 utilities.

22. Control the horizontal padding of an element to 1rem using the px-4 utilities.

23. Control the background color of an element to white using the bg-white utilities.

24. Control the text color of an element to lg using the text-lg utilities.

25. Control the text color of an element to red-500 on hover using the hover:text-red-500 utilities.

26. Control the vertical padding of an element to 0.5rem using the py-2 utilities.

27. Control the margin on right side of an element to 0.5rem using the mr-2 utilities.

28. Control the text color of an element to xs using the text-xs utilities.

29. Control the text color of an element to gray-600 using the text-gray-600 utilities.

30. Control the text color of an element to red-600 using the text-red-600 utilities.

31. Control the text color of an element to yellow-400 using the text-yellow-400 utilities.

32. Control the text color of an element to gray-400 using the text-gray-400 utilities.

33. Control the margin on left side of an element to 0.5rem using the ml-2 utilities.

34. Control the text color of an element to gray-500 using the text-gray-500 utilities.

35. Control the text color of an element to sm using the text-sm utilities.

Conclusion

The above is a step-by-step tutorial on how to use Tailwind CSS to build a Cart components, learn and follow along to implement your own components.