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How to Create A Form With Tailwind CSS?

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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 Form ui component

Form inline

Why use Tailwind CSS to create a Form ui component?

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

The preview of Form ui component

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The source code of Form ui component

<div class="bg-green-200 py-32 px-10 min-h-screen ">
  <!--   tip; mx-auto -- jagab ilusti keskele  -->
  <div class="bg-white p-10 md:w-3/4 lg:w-1/2 mx-auto">

    <form action="">

      <!--       flex - asjad korvuti, nb! flex-1 - element kogu ylejaanud laius -->
      <div class="flex items-center mb-5">
        <!--         tip - here neede inline-block , but why? -->
        <label for="name" class="inline-block w-20 mr-6 text-right 
                                 font-bold text-gray-600">Text</label>
        <input type="text" id="name" name="name" placeholder="Name" 
               class="flex-1 py-2 border-b-2 border-gray-400 focus:border-green-400 
                      text-gray-600 placeholder-gray-400
                      outline-none">
      </div>

      <div class="flex items-center mb-5">
        <!--         tip - here neede inline-block , but why? -->
        <label for="number" class="inline-block w-20 mr-6 text-right 
                                 font-bold text-gray-600">Number</label>
        <input type="number" id="number" name="number" placeholder="number" 
               class="flex-1 py-2 border-b-2 border-gray-400 focus:border-green-400 
                      text-gray-600 placeholder-gray-400
                      outline-none">
      </div>

      <div class="flex items-center mb-5">
        <!--         tip - here neede inline-block , but why? -->
        <label for="number" class="inline-block w-20 mr-6 text-right 
                                 font-bold text-gray-600">Range</label>
        <input type="range" id="range" name="range" placeholder="range" 
               class="flex-1 py-2 border-b-2 border-gray-400 focus:border-green-400 
                      text-gray-600 placeholder-gray-400
                      outline-none">
      </div>

      <div class="flex items-center mb-5">
        <!--         tip - here neede inline-block , but why? -->
        <label for="number" class="inline-block w-20 mr-6 text-right 
                                 font-bold text-gray-600">File</label>
        <input type="file" id="file" name="file" placeholder="file" 
               class="flex-1 py-2 border-b-2 border-gray-400 focus:border-green-400 
                      text-gray-600 placeholder-gray-400
                      outline-none">
      </div>

      <div class="flex items-center mb-5">
        <!--         tip - here neede inline-block , but why? -->
        <label for="number" class="inline-block w-20 mr-6 text-right 
                                 font-bold text-gray-600">Date</label>
        <input type="date" id="date" name="date" placeholder="date" 
               class="flex-1 py-2 border-b-2 border-gray-400 focus:border-green-400 
                      text-gray-600 placeholder-gray-400
                      outline-none">
      </div>

      <div class="flex items-center mb-5">
        <!--         tip - here neede inline-block , but why? -->
        <label for="number" class="inline-block w-20 mr-6 text-right 
                                 font-bold text-gray-600">Month</label>
        <input type="month" id="month" name="month" placeholder="month" 
               class="flex-1 py-2 border-b-2 border-gray-400 focus:border-green-400 
                      text-gray-600 placeholder-gray-400
                      outline-none">
      </div>

      <div class="flex items-center mb-5">
        <!--         tip - here neede inline-block , but why? -->
        <label for="number" class="inline-block w-20 mr-6 text-right 
                                 font-bold text-gray-600">Time</label>
        <input type="time" id="time" name="time" placeholder="time" 
               class="flex-1 py-2 border-b-2 border-gray-400 focus:border-green-400 
                      text-gray-600 placeholder-gray-400
                      outline-none">
      </div>

      <div class="flex items-center mb-5">
        <!--         tip - here neede inline-block , but why? -->
        <label for="number" class="inline-block w-20 mr-6 text-right 
                                 font-bold text-gray-600">Password</label>
        <input type="password" id="password" name="password" placeholder="password" 
               class="flex-1 py-2 border-b-2 border-gray-400 focus:border-green-400 
                      text-gray-600 placeholder-gray-400
                      outline-none">
      </div>

      <div class="flex items-center mb-5">
        <!--         tip - here neede inline-block , but why? -->
        <label for="number" class="inline-block w-20 mr-6 text-right 
                                 font-bold text-gray-600">Select</label>
        <select class="flex-1 py-2 border-b-2 border-gray-400 focus:border-green-400 
                      text-gray-600 placeholder-gray-400
                      outline-none">
            <option>Surabaya</option>
            <option>Jakarta</option>
            <option>bandung</option>
            <option>Tangerang</option>
        </select>
      </div>

      <div class="text-right">
        <button class="py-3 px-8 bg-green-400 text-white font-bold">Submit</button> 
      </div>

    </form>
  </div>
</div>

How to create a Form with Tailwind CSS?

Install tailwind css of verion 2.2.4

Use the script html tag to import the script of Tailwind CSS of the version 2.2.4

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

All the unility class needed to create a Form component

  • bg-green-200
  • py-32
  • px-10
  • min-h-screen
  • bg-white
  • p-10
  • md:w-3/4
  • lg:w-1/2
  • mx-auto
  • flex
  • mb-5
  • inline-block
  • w-20
  • mr-6
  • text-right
  • text-gray-600
  • flex-1
  • py-2
  • border-b-2
  • border-gray-400
  • focus:border-green-400
  • py-3
  • px-8
  • bg-green-400
  • text-white

25 steps to create a Form component with Tailwind CSS

  1. Control the background color of an element to green-200 using the bg-green-200 utilities.

  2. Control the vertical padding of an element to 8rem using the py-32 utilities.

  3. Control the horizontal padding of an element to 2.5rem using the px-10 utilities.

  4. Set the minimum width/height of an element using the min-h-screen utilities.

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

  6. Control the padding on all sides of an element to 2.5rem using the p-10 utilities.

  7. Use md:w-3/4 to set an element to a fixed width(3/4) at only medium screen sizes.

  8. Use lg:w-1/2 to set an element to a fixed width(1/2) at only large screen sizes.

  9. Control the horizontal margin of an element to auto using the mx-auto utilities.

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

  11. Control the margin on bottom side of an element to 1.25rem using the mb-5 utilities.

  12. Use inline-block utilities to wrap the element to prevent the text inside from extending beyond its parent.

  13. Use w-20 to set an element to a fixed width(5rem).

  14. Control the margin on right side of an element to 1.5rem using the mr-6 utilities.

  15. Control the text color of an element to right using the text-right utilities.

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

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

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

  19. Control the border color of an element to b-2 using the border-b-2 utilities.

  20. Control the border color of an element to gray-400 using the border-gray-400 utilities.

  21. Control the border color of an element to green-400 using the focus:border-green-400 utilities on focus.

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

  23. Control the horizontal padding of an element to 2rem using the px-8 utilities.

  24. Control the background color of an element to green-400 using the bg-green-400 utilities.

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

Conclusion

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