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Learn How To Build A Banner With Tailwind CSS from the Pros

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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 Banner ui component

A simple banner for tailwindcss.

Why use Tailwind CSS to build a Banner ui component?

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

The preview of Banner ui component

Free download of the Banner's source code

The source code of Banner ui component

<div class="bg-cover bg-center  h-auto text-white py-24 px-10 object-fill" style="background-image: url(https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1558981806-ec527fa84c39?ixlib=rb-1.2.1&ixid=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjEyMDd9&auto=format&fit=crop&w=1350&q=80)">
       <div class="md:w-1/2">
        <p class="font-bold text-sm uppercase">Services</p>
        <p class="text-3xl font-bold">Multimedia products</p>
        <p class="text-2xl mb-10 leading-none">Atractive designs for your brand</p>
        <a href="#" class="bg-purple-800 py-4 px-8 text-white font-bold uppercase text-xs rounded hover:bg-gray-200 hover:text-gray-800">Contact us</a>
        </div>  
    </div>

How to build a Banner with Tailwind CSS?

Install tailwind css of verion 1.2.0

Use the link html tag to import the stylesheet of Tailwind CSS of the version 1.2.0

<link href=https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/tailwind.min.css rel="stylesheet">

All the unility class needed to build a Banner component

  • bg-cover
  • bg-center
  • h-auto
  • text-white
  • py-24
  • px-10
  • md:w-1/2
  • text-sm
  • text-3xl
  • text-2xl
  • mb-10
  • bg-purple-800
  • py-4
  • px-8
  • text-xs
  • hover:bg-gray-200
  • hover:text-gray-800

17 steps to build a Banner component with Tailwind CSS

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

  2. Control the background color of an element to center using the bg-center utilities.

  3. Use h-auto to set an element to a fixed height(auto).

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

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

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

  7. Use md:w-1/2 to set an element to a fixed width(1/2) at only medium screen sizes.

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

  9. Control the text color of an element to 3xl using the text-3xl utilities.

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

  11. Control the margin on bottom side of an element to 2.5rem using the mb-10 utilities.

  12. Control the background color of an element to purple-800 using the bg-purple-800 utilities.

  13. Control the vertical padding of an element to 1rem using the py-4 utilities.

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

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

  16. Control the background color of an element to gray-200 using the hover:bg-gray-200 utilities on hover.

  17. Control the text color of an element to gray-800 on hover using the hover:text-gray-800 utilities.

Conclusion

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