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Practical Guide: Create A Dark Action Panel With Tailwind CSS

Dark action panel

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 Dark action panel ui component

Original design by ui design daily

Why use Tailwind CSS to make a Dark action panel ui component?

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

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The source code of Dark action panel ui component

<section class='px-4 sm:px-6 lg:px-8'>
  <div class="p-8 sm:p-14 bg-[#2E2E41] rounded-2xl shadow-2xl font-mulish md:min-w-[692px]">
    <div class="flex justify-between items-center">
      <h3 class="text-[#D0CAE5] text-[22px] font-bold">
        Projects
      </h3>
      <a href="#" class="text-[#F09666] font-bold hover:underline">
        Archived projects
      </a>
    </div>
    <p class="mt-5 text-[#D0CAE5] max-w-md">
      Group your projects into separate folders. When you are uploading use the “Add to folder” checkbox.
    </p>
    <button type="button" class="font-bold text-lg mt-14 bg-[#F09666] rounded text-white py-4 px-7 border border-transparent hover:bg-transparent hover:border-[#F09666] hover:text-[#F09666] focus:outline-none focus:ring-2 focus:ring-[#F09666]">
       View my projects
    </button>
  </div> 
</section>

How to make a Dark action panel with Tailwind CSS?

Install tailwind css of verion 3.0.18

Use the script html tag to import the script of Tailwind CSS of the version 3.0.18

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

All the unility class needed to make a Dark action panel component

  • p-8
  • sm:p-14
  • bg-[#2E2E41]
  • md:min-w-[692px]
  • flex
  • text-[#D0CAE5]
  • text-[22px]
  • text-[#F09666]
  • mt-5
  • max-w-md
  • text-lg
  • mt-14
  • bg-[#F09666]
  • text-white
  • py-4
  • px-7
  • border-transparent
  • hover:bg-transparent
  • hover:border-[#F09666]
  • hover:text-[#F09666]

20 steps to make a Dark action panel component with Tailwind CSS

  1. Control the padding on all sides of an element to 2rem using the p-8 utilities.

  2. Control the padding on all sides of an element to 3.5rem at only small screen sizes using the sm:p-14 utilities.

  3. Control the background color of an element to [#2E2E41] using the bg-[#2E2E41] utilities.

  4. Set the minimum width/height of an element using the md:min-w-[692px] utilities at only medium screen sizes.

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

  6. Control the text color of an element to [#D0CAE5] using the text-[#D0CAE5] utilities.

  7. Control the text color of an element to [22px] using the text-[22px] utilities.

  8. Control the text color of an element to [#F09666] using the text-[#F09666] utilities.

  9. Control the margin on top side of an element to 1.25rem using the mt-5 utilities.

  10. Set the maximum width/height of an element using the max-w-md utilities.

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

  12. Control the margin on top side of an element to 3.5rem using the mt-14 utilities.

  13. Control the background color of an element to [#F09666] using the bg-[#F09666] utilities.

  14. Control the text color of an element to white using the text-white utilities.

  15. Control the vertical padding of an element to 1rem using the py-4 utilities.

  16. Control the horizontal padding of an element to 1.75rem using the px-7 utilities.

  17. Control the border color of an element to transparent using the border-transparent utilities.

  18. Control the background color of an element to transparent using the hover:bg-transparent utilities on hover.

  19. Control the border color of an element to [#F09666] using the hover:border-[#F09666] utilities on hover.

  20. Control the text color of an element to [#F09666] on hover using the hover:text-[#F09666] utilities.

Conclusion

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