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Practical Guide: Build A Gallery 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.

Gallery

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

Free download of the Gallery's source code

<section class="text-gray-600 body-font">
  <div class="container px-5 py-24 mx-auto">
    <div class="flex flex-col text-center w-full mb-20">
      <h1 class="sm:text-3xl text-2xl font-medium title-font mb-4 text-gray-900">Master Cleanse Reliac Heirloom</h1>
      <p class="lg:w-2/3 mx-auto leading-relaxed text-base">Whatever cardigan tote bag tumblr hexagon brooklyn asymmetrical gentrify, subway tile poke farm-to-table. Franzen you probably haven't heard of them man bun deep jianbing selfies heirloom.</p>
    </div>
    <div class="flex flex-wrap -m-4">
      <div class="lg:w-1/3 sm:w-1/2 p-4">
        <div class="flex relative">
          <img alt="gallery" class="absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover object-center" src="https://dummyimage.com/600x360">
          <div class="px-8 py-10 relative z-10 w-full border-4 border-gray-200 bg-white opacity-0 hover:opacity-100">
            <h2 class="tracking-widest text-sm title-font font-medium text-indigo-500 mb-1">THE SUBTITLE</h2>
            <h1 class="title-font text-lg font-medium text-gray-900 mb-3">Shooting Stars</h1>
            <p class="leading-relaxed">Photo booth fam kinfolk cold-pressed sriracha leggings jianbing microdosing tousled waistcoat.</p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="lg:w-1/3 sm:w-1/2 p-4">
        <div class="flex relative">
          <img alt="gallery" class="absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover object-center" src="https://dummyimage.com/601x361">
          <div class="px-8 py-10 relative z-10 w-full border-4 border-gray-200 bg-white opacity-0 hover:opacity-100">
            <h2 class="tracking-widest text-sm title-font font-medium text-indigo-500 mb-1">THE SUBTITLE</h2>
            <h1 class="title-font text-lg font-medium text-gray-900 mb-3">The Catalyzer</h1>
            <p class="leading-relaxed">Photo booth fam kinfolk cold-pressed sriracha leggings jianbing microdosing tousled waistcoat.</p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="lg:w-1/3 sm:w-1/2 p-4">
        <div class="flex relative">
          <img alt="gallery" class="absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover object-center" src="https://dummyimage.com/603x363">
          <div class="px-8 py-10 relative z-10 w-full border-4 border-gray-200 bg-white opacity-0 hover:opacity-100">
            <h2 class="tracking-widest text-sm title-font font-medium text-indigo-500 mb-1">THE SUBTITLE</h2>
            <h1 class="title-font text-lg font-medium text-gray-900 mb-3">The 400 Blows</h1>
            <p class="leading-relaxed">Photo booth fam kinfolk cold-pressed sriracha leggings jianbing microdosing tousled waistcoat.</p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="lg:w-1/3 sm:w-1/2 p-4">
        <div class="flex relative">
          <img alt="gallery" class="absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover object-center" src="https://dummyimage.com/602x362">
          <div class="px-8 py-10 relative z-10 w-full border-4 border-gray-200 bg-white opacity-0 hover:opacity-100">
            <h2 class="tracking-widest text-sm title-font font-medium text-indigo-500 mb-1">THE SUBTITLE</h2>
            <h1 class="title-font text-lg font-medium text-gray-900 mb-3">Neptune</h1>
            <p class="leading-relaxed">Photo booth fam kinfolk cold-pressed sriracha leggings jianbing microdosing tousled waistcoat.</p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="lg:w-1/3 sm:w-1/2 p-4">
        <div class="flex relative">
          <img alt="gallery" class="absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover object-center" src="https://dummyimage.com/605x365">
          <div class="px-8 py-10 relative z-10 w-full border-4 border-gray-200 bg-white opacity-0 hover:opacity-100">
            <h2 class="tracking-widest text-sm title-font font-medium text-indigo-500 mb-1">THE SUBTITLE</h2>
            <h1 class="title-font text-lg font-medium text-gray-900 mb-3">Holden Caulfield</h1>
            <p class="leading-relaxed">Photo booth fam kinfolk cold-pressed sriracha leggings jianbing microdosing tousled waistcoat.</p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="lg:w-1/3 sm:w-1/2 p-4">
        <div class="flex relative">
          <img alt="gallery" class="absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover object-center" src="https://dummyimage.com/606x366">
          <div class="px-8 py-10 relative z-10 w-full border-4 border-gray-200 bg-white opacity-0 hover:opacity-100">
            <h2 class="tracking-widest text-sm title-font font-medium text-indigo-500 mb-1">THE SUBTITLE</h2>
            <h1 class="title-font text-lg font-medium text-gray-900 mb-3">Alper Kamu</h1>
            <p class="leading-relaxed">Photo booth fam kinfolk cold-pressed sriracha leggings jianbing microdosing tousled waistcoat.</p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</section>

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>
  • text-gray-600
  • px-5
  • py-24
  • mx-auto
  • flex
  • flex-col
  • text-center
  • w-full
  • mb-20
  • sm:text-3xl
  • text-2xl
  • mb-4
  • text-gray-900
  • lg:w-2/3
  • text-base
  • flex-wrap
  • -m-4
  • lg:w-1/3
  • sm:w-1/2
  • p-4
  • relative
  • absolute
  • h-full
  • px-8
  • py-10
  • z-10
  • border-4
  • border-gray-200
  • bg-white
  • text-sm
  • text-indigo-500
  • mb-1
  • text-lg
  • mb-3

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

  2. Control the horizontal padding of an element to 1.25rem using the px-5 utilities.

  3. Control the vertical padding of an element to 6rem using the py-24 utilities.

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

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

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

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

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

  9. Control the margin on bottom side of an element to 5rem using the mb-20 utilities.

  10. Control the text color of an element to 3xl at only small screen sizes using the sm:text-3xl 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 1rem using the mb-4 utilities.

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

  14. Use lg:w-2/3 to set an element to a fixed width(2/3) at only large screen sizes.

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

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

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

  18. Use lg:w-1/3 to set an element to a fixed width(1/3) at only large screen sizes.

  19. Use sm:w-1/2 to set an element to a fixed width(1/2) at only small screen sizes.

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

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

  22. 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.

  23. Use h-full to set an element’s height to 100% of its parent, as long as the parent has a defined height.

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

  25. Control the vertical padding of an element to 2.5rem using the py-10 utilities.

  26. Control the stack order (or three-dimensional positioning) of an element to 10 in Tailwind, regardless of order it has been displayed, using the z-10 utilities.

  27. Control the border color of an element to 1rem using the border-4 utilities.

  28. Control the border color of an element to gray-200 using the border-gray-200 utilities.

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

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

  31. Control the text color of an element to indigo-500 using the text-indigo-500 utilities.

  32. Control the margin on bottom side of an element to 0.25rem using the mb-1 utilities.

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

  34. Control the margin on bottom side of an element to 0.75rem using the mb-3 utilities.

Conclusion

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