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Practical Guide: Make A Grid Card 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 Grid card ui component

This layout could help u to get start on ur design

Why use Tailwind CSS to create a Grid card ui component?

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

The preview of Grid card ui component

Free download of the Grid card's source code

The source code of Grid card ui component

<card class="flex flex-col max-w-6xl mx-auto space-y-4 ">
      <div class="bg-green-500 rounded-lg py-6 p-3">card 1</div>
      <div class="flex  justify-between space-x-5">
        <div class="bg-yellow-500 rounded-lg sm:h-[70vh] py-6 w-full h-[80vh] p-3">
          card 2
        </div>
        <div class="bg-red-500 rounded-lg py-6 w-full p-3">card 3</div>
        <div class="hidden md:inline-block bg-purple-500 rounded-lg py-6 w-full p-3">
          card 4
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class=" md:hidden bg-purple-500 rounded-lg py-6 w-full p-3">
        card 4
      </div>
      <div class="bg-blue-500 rounded-lg py-6 p-3">card 5</div>
    </card>

How to create a Grid card 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 create a Grid card component

  • flex
  • flex-col
  • max-w-6xl
  • mx-auto
  • bg-green-500
  • py-6
  • p-3
  • bg-yellow-500
  • sm:h-[70vh]
  • w-full
  • h-[80vh]
  • bg-red-500
  • hidden
  • md:inline-block
  • bg-purple-500
  • md:hidden
  • bg-blue-500

17 steps to create a Grid card component with Tailwind CSS

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

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

  3. Set the maximum width/height of an element using the max-w-6xl utilities.

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

  5. Control the background color of an element to green-500 using the bg-green-500 utilities.

  6. Control the vertical padding of an element to 1.5rem using the py-6 utilities.

  7. Control the padding on all sides of an element to 0.75rem using the p-3 utilities.

  8. Control the background color of an element to yellow-500 using the bg-yellow-500 utilities.

  9. Use sm:h-[70vh] to set an element to a fixed height([70vh]) at only small screen sizes.

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

  11. Use h-[80vh] to set an element to a fixed height([80vh]).

  12. Control the background color of an element to red-500 using the bg-red-500 utilities.

  13. Use hidden to set an element to display: none and remove it from the page layout.

  14. Use inline-block utilities to wrap the element to prevent the text inside from extending beyond its parent at only medium screen sizes.

  15. Control the background color of an element to purple-500 using the bg-purple-500 utilities.

  16. Use hidden to set an element to display: none and remove it from the page layout at only medium screen sizes.

  17. Control the background color of an element to blue-500 using the bg-blue-500 utilities.

Conclusion

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