Advanced Guide: Create A Form With Tailwind CSS

• What is Tailwind CSS?
• The description of Form ui component
• Why use Tailwind CSS to build a Form ui component?
• The preview of Form ui component
• The source code of Form ui component
• How to build a Form with Tailwind CSS?
• Install tailwind css of verion 2.2.4
• All the unility class needed to build a Form component
• 25 steps to build a Form 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 Form ui component

Component form

Why use Tailwind CSS to build 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

The source code of Form ui component

<div class="flex justify-center items-center w-full bg-blue-400">
    <div class="w-1/2 bg-white rounded shadow-2xl p-8 m-4">
        <h1 class="block w-full text-center text-gray-800 text-2xl font-bold mb-6">Component Form</h1>
        <form action="/" method="post">
            <div class="flex flex-col mb-4">
                <label class="mb-2 font-bold text-lg text-gray-900" for="first_name">First Name</label>
                <input class="border py-2 px-3 text-grey-800" type="text" name="first_name" id="first_name">
            </div>
            <div class="flex flex-col mb-4">
                <label class="mb-2 font-bold text-lg text-gray-900" for="last_name">Last Name</label>
                <input class="border py-2 px-3 text-grey-800" type="text" name="last_name" id="last_name">
            </div>
            <div class="flex flex-col mb-4">
                <label class="mb-2 font-bold text-lg text-gray-900" for="email">Email</label>
                <input class="border py-2 px-3 text-grey-800" type="email" name="email" id="email">
            </div>
            <div class="flex flex-col mb-4">
                <label class="mb-2 font-bold text-lg text-gray-900" for="password">Password</label>
                <input class="border py-2 px-3 text-grey-800" type="password" name="password" id="password">
            </div>
            <div class="flex flex-col mb-4">
                <label class="mb-2 font-bold text-lg text-gray-900" for="Date">Date</label>
                <input class="border py-2 px-3 text-grey-800" type="date" name="date" id="date">
            </div>
            <div class="flex flex-col mb-4">
                <label class="mb-2 font-bold text-lg text-gray-900" for="File">File</label>
                <input class="border py-2 px-3 text-grey-800" type="file" name="file" id="file">
            </div>
            <div class="flex flex-col mb-4">
                <label class="mb-2 font-bold text-lg text-gray-900" for="color">Range</label>
                <input class="border py-2 text-grey-800" type="range" name="range" id="range">
            </div>
            <div class="flex flex-col mb-4">
                <label class="mb-2 font-bold text-lg text-gray-900" for="textarea">textarea</label>
                <textarea class="border py-2 px-3 text-grey-800" name="textarea" id="textarea"></textarea>
            </div>
            <div class="flex flex-col mb-4">
                <label class="mb-2 font-bold text-lg text-gray-900" for="Select">Select</label>
                <select class="border py-2 px-3 text-grey-800">
                    <option>Surabaya</option>
                    <option>Jakarta</option>
                    <option>Bandung</option>
                    <option>Mojokerto</option>
                </select>
            </div>
            <button class="block bg-green-400 hover:bg-green-600 text-white uppercase text-lg mx-auto p-4 rounded" type="submit">Save</button>
        </form>
    </div>
</div>

How to build 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 build a Form component

• flex
• w-full
• bg-blue-400
• w-1/2
• bg-white
• p-8
• m-4
• block
• text-center
• text-gray-800
• text-2xl
• mb-6
• flex-col
• mb-4
• mb-2
• text-lg
• text-gray-900
• py-2
• px-3
• text-grey-800
• bg-green-400
• hover:bg-green-600
• text-white
• mx-auto
• p-4

25 steps to build a Form component with Tailwind CSS

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

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

3. Control the background color of an element to blue-400 using the bg-blue-400 utilities.

4. Use w-1/2 to set an element to a fixed width(1/2).

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 2rem using the p-8 utilities.

7. Control the margin on all sides of an element to 1rem using the m-4 utilities.

8. Use inline utilities to put the element on its own line and fill its parent.

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

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

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

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

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

14. Control the margin on bottom side of an element to 1rem using the mb-4 utilities.

15. Control the margin on bottom side of an element to 0.5rem using the mb-2 utilities.

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

17. Control the text color of an element to gray-900 using the text-gray-900 utilities.

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

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

20. Control the text color of an element to grey-800 using the text-grey-800 utilities.

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

22. Control the background color of an element to green-600 using the hover:bg-green-600 utilities on hover.

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

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

25. Control the padding on all sides of an element to 1rem using the p-4 utilities.

Conclusion

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