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Beginners Guide: Make A Simple Footer 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.

Simple footer with social links

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

Free download of the Simple Footer's source code

<!-- This is an example component -->
<div class="bg-gray-900">
    <footer class="flex flex-wrap items-center justify-between p-3 m-auto">
        <div class="container mx-auto flex flex-col flex-wrap items-center justify-between">
            <ul class="flex mx-auto text-white text-center">
              <li class="p-2 cursor-pointer hover:underline">Terms & Conditions</li>
              <li class="p-2 cursor-pointer hover:underline">Privacy</li>
              <li class="p-2 cursor-pointer hover:underline">Cookies</li>
            </ul>
            <ul class="flex mx-auto text-white text-center">
              <li class="p-2 cursor-pointer"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="fill-current text-white" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M22.675 0h-21.35c-.732 0-1.325.593-1.325 1.325v21.351c0 .731.593 1.324 1.325 1.324h11.495v-9.294h-3.128v-3.622h3.128v-2.671c0-3.1 1.893-4.788 4.659-4.788 1.325 0 2.463.099 2.795.143v3.24l-1.918.001c-1.504 0-1.795.715-1.795 1.763v2.313h3.587l-.467 3.622h-3.12v9.293h6.116c.73 0 1.323-.593 1.323-1.325v-21.35c0-.732-.593-1.325-1.325-1.325z"/></svg></li>
              <li class="p-2 cursor-pointer"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="fill-current text-white" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M21.231 0h-18.462c-1.529 0-2.769 1.24-2.769 2.769v18.46c0 1.531 1.24 2.771 2.769 2.771h18.463c1.529 0 2.768-1.24 2.768-2.771v-18.46c0-1.529-1.239-2.769-2.769-2.769zm-9.231 7.385c2.549 0 4.616 2.065 4.616 4.615 0 2.549-2.067 4.616-4.616 4.616s-4.615-2.068-4.615-4.616c0-2.55 2.066-4.615 4.615-4.615zm9 12.693c0 .509-.413.922-.924.922h-16.152c-.511 0-.924-.413-.924-.922v-10.078h1.897c-.088.315-.153.64-.2.971-.05.337-.081.679-.081 1.029 0 4.079 3.306 7.385 7.384 7.385s7.384-3.306 7.384-7.385c0-.35-.031-.692-.081-1.028-.047-.331-.112-.656-.2-.971h1.897v10.077zm0-13.98c0 .509-.413.923-.924.923h-2.174c-.511 0-.923-.414-.923-.923v-2.175c0-.51.412-.923.923-.923h2.174c.511 0 .924.413.924.923v2.175z" fillRule="evenodd" clipRule="evenodd"/></svg></li>
              <li class="p-2 cursor-pointer"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="fill-current text-white" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M24 4.557c-.883.392-1.832.656-2.828.775 1.017-.609 1.798-1.574 2.165-2.724-.951.564-2.005.974-3.127 1.195-.897-.957-2.178-1.555-3.594-1.555-3.179 0-5.515 2.966-4.797 6.045-4.091-.205-7.719-2.165-10.148-5.144-1.29 2.213-.669 5.108 1.523 6.574-.806-.026-1.566-.247-2.229-.616-.054 2.281 1.581 4.415 3.949 4.89-.693.188-1.452.232-2.224.084.626 1.956 2.444 3.379 4.6 3.419-2.07 1.623-4.678 2.348-7.29 2.04 2.179 1.397 4.768 2.212 7.548 2.212 9.142 0 14.307-7.721 13.995-14.646.962-.695 1.797-1.562 2.457-2.549z"/></svg></li>
            </ul>
            <div class="flex mx-auto text-white text-center">
                Copyright Business Name © 2021
            </div>
        </div>
    </footer>
</div>

Install tailwind css of verion 2.0.3

Use the script html tag to import the script of Tailwind CSS of the version 2.0.3

<script src="https://cdn.tailwindcss.com"></script>
  • bg-gray-900
  • flex
  • flex-wrap
  • p-3
  • m-auto
  • mx-auto
  • flex-col
  • text-white
  • text-center
  • p-2

  1. Control the background color of an element to gray-900 using the bg-gray-900 utilities.

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

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

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

  5. Control the margin on all sides of an element to auto using the m-auto utilities.

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

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

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

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

  10. Control the padding on all sides of an element to 0.5rem using the p-2 utilities.

Conclusion

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