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The Ultimate Guide To Help You Make A List 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 List ui component

Responsive list with an sticky search bar

Why use Tailwind CSS to create a List ui component?

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

The preview of List ui component

Free download of the List's source code

The source code of List ui component

<div>

      <div class="flex flex-col p-2 py-6 m-h-screen">

        <div class="bg-white items-center justify-between w-full flex rounded-full shadow-lg p-2 mb-5 sticky" style="top: 5px">

            <div>

                <div class="p-2 mr-1 rounded-full hover:bg-gray-100 cursor-pointer">

                    <svg class="h-6 w-6 text-gray-500" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="currentColor">
                    <path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M9.707 16.707a1 1 0 01-1.414 0l-6-6a1 1 0 010-1.414l6-6a1 1 0 011.414 1.414L5.414 9H17a1 1 0 110 2H5.414l4.293 4.293a1 1 0 010 1.414z" clip-rule="evenodd" />
                    </svg>

                </div>

            </div>

            <input class="font-bold uppercase rounded-full w-full py-4 pl-4 text-gray-700 bg-gray-100 leading-tight focus:outline-none focus:shadow-outline lg:text-sm text-xs" type="text" placeholder="Search">

                <div class="bg-gray-600 p-2 hover:bg-blue-400 cursor-pointer mx-2 rounded-full">

                    <svg class="w-6 h-6 text-white" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="currentColor">
                    <path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M8 4a4 4 0 100 8 4 4 0 000-8zM2 8a6 6 0 1110.89 3.476l4.817 4.817a1 1 0 01-1.414 1.414l-4.816-4.816A6 6 0 012 8z" clip-rule="evenodd" />
                    </svg>

                </div>

        </div>


        <div class="flex flex-col gap-4 lg:p-4 p-2  rounde-lg m-2">

            <div class="lg:text-2xl md:text-xl text-lg lg:p-3 p-1 font-black text-gray-700">Selecciona el negocio</div>

            <div class="flex items-center justify-between w-full p-2 lg:rounded-full md:rounded-full hover:bg-gray-100 cursor-pointer border-2 rounded-lg">

                <div class="lg:flex md:flex items-center">
                <div class="h-12 w-12 mb-2 lg:mb-0 border md:mb-0 rounded-full mr-3"></div>

                <div class="flex flex-col">

                    <div class="text-sm leading-3 text-gray-700 font-bold w-full">Club de Tenis de Concepcion</div>

                    <div class="text-xs text-gray-600 w-full">Av. veteranos del 93, Parque ecuador, Concepcion.</div>
                
                </div>

                </div>

                <svg class="h-6 w-6 mr-1 invisible md:visible lg:visible xl:visible" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="currentColor">
                <path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M7.293 14.707a1 1 0 010-1.414L10.586 10 7.293 6.707a1 1 0 011.414-1.414l4 4a1 1 0 010 1.414l-4 4a1 1 0 01-1.414 0z" clip-rule="evenodd" />
                </svg>
                
            </div>
                
        </div>
            
      </div>
      
  </div>

How to create a List with Tailwind CSS?

Install tailwind css of verion 1.7.0

Use the link html tag to import the stylesheet of Tailwind CSS of the version 1.7.0

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

All the unility class needed to create a List component

  • flex
  • flex-col
  • p-2
  • py-6
  • m-h-screen
  • bg-white
  • w-full
  • mb-5
  • sticky
  • mr-1
  • hover:bg-gray-100
  • h-6
  • w-6
  • text-gray-500
  • py-4
  • pl-4
  • text-gray-700
  • bg-gray-100
  • lg:text-sm
  • text-xs
  • bg-gray-600
  • hover:bg-blue-400
  • mx-2
  • text-white
  • gap-4
  • lg:p-4
  • m-2
  • lg:text-2xl
  • md:text-xl
  • text-lg
  • lg:p-3
  • p-1
  • border-2
  • lg:flex
  • md:flex
  • h-12
  • w-12
  • mb-2
  • lg:mb-0
  • md:mb-0
  • mr-3
  • text-sm
  • text-gray-600
  • invisible
  • md:visible
  • lg:visible
  • xl:visible

47 steps to create a List 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. Control the padding on all sides of an element to 0.5rem using the p-2 utilities.

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

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

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

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

  8. Control the margin on bottom side of an element to 1.25rem using the mb-5 utilities.

  9. Use sticky to position an element as relative until it crosses a specified threshold, then treat it as fixed until its parent is off screen.

  10. Control the margin on right side of an element to 0.25rem using the mr-1 utilities.

  11. Control the background color of an element to gray-100 using the hover:bg-gray-100 utilities on hover.

  12. Use h-6 to set an element to a fixed height(1.5rem).

  13. Use w-6 to set an element to a fixed width(1.5rem).

  14. Control the text color of an element to gray-500 using the text-gray-500 utilities.

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

  16. Adjust the left padding of the element to 1rem using the pl-4 utilities class

  17. Control the text color of an element to gray-700 using the text-gray-700 utilities.

  18. Control the background color of an element to gray-100 using the bg-gray-100 utilities.

  19. Control the text color of an element to sm at only large screen sizes using the lg:text-sm utilities.

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

  21. Control the background color of an element to gray-600 using the bg-gray-600 utilities.

  22. Control the background color of an element to blue-400 using the hover:bg-blue-400 utilities on hover.

  23. Control the horizontal margin of an element to 0.5rem using the mx-2 utilities.

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

  25. To specify the width between columns, you can use the gap-4 utilities.

  26. Control the padding on all sides of an element to 1rem at only large screen sizes using the lg:p-4 utilities.

  27. Control the margin on all sides of an element to 0.5rem using the m-2 utilities.

  28. Control the text color of an element to 2xl at only large screen sizes using the lg:text-2xl utilities.

  29. Control the text color of an element to xl at only medium screen sizes using the md:text-xl utilities.

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

  31. Control the padding on all sides of an element to 0.75rem at only large screen sizes using the lg:p-3 utilities.

  32. Control the padding on all sides of an element to 0.25rem using the p-1 utilities.

  33. Control the border color of an element to 0.5rem using the border-2 utilities.

  34. Use flex to create a block-level flex container at only large screen sizes.

  35. Use flex to create a block-level flex container at only medium screen sizes.

  36. Use h-12 to set an element to a fixed height(3rem).

  37. Use w-12 to set an element to a fixed width(3rem).

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

  39. Control the margin on bottom side of an element to 0rem at only large screen sizes using the lg:mb-0 utilities.

  40. Control the margin on bottom side of an element to 0rem at only medium screen sizes using the md:mb-0 utilities.

  41. Control the margin on right side of an element to 0.75rem using the mr-3 utilities.

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

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

  44. Use invisible to hide an element, but still maintain its place in the DOM, affecting the layout of other elements.

  45. Use visible to make an element visible at only medium screen sizes. This is mostly useful for undoing the invisible utility at different screen sizes.

  46. Use visible to make an element visible at only large screen sizes. This is mostly useful for undoing the invisible utility at different screen sizes.

  47. Use visible to make an element visible at only extremely large screen sizes. This is mostly useful for undoing the invisible utility at different screen sizes.

Conclusion

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