Ways To Make A Loading Placeholder With Tailwind CSS In 60 Minutes

• What is Tailwind CSS?
• The description of Loading Placeholder ui component
• Why use Tailwind CSS to make a Loading Placeholder ui component?
• The preview of Loading Placeholder ui component
• The source code of Loading Placeholder ui component
• How to make a Loading Placeholder with Tailwind CSS?
• Install tailwind css of verion 2.0.2
• All the unility class needed to make a Loading Placeholder component
• 15 steps to make a Loading Placeholder component with Tailwind CSS
• Conclusion

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 Loading Placeholder ui component

Basic placeholder of text and images

Why use Tailwind CSS to make a Loading Placeholder ui component?

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

The preview of Loading Placeholder ui component

The source code of Loading Placeholder ui component

<!-- This is an example component -->
<div class="w-full flex items-center flex-col">
    <div class="flex bg-white shadow-md p-4 rounded-md">
        <div data-placeholder class="mr-2 h-20 w-20 rounded-full overflow-hidden relative bg-gray-200">
        
        </div>
        <div class="flex flex-col justify-between">
            <div data-placeholder class="mb-2 h-5 w-40 overflow-hidden relative bg-gray-200">
            
            </div>
            <div data-placeholder class="h-10 w-40 overflow-hidden relative bg-gray-200">
            
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>


<style>
    [data-placeholder]::after {
        content: " ";
        box-shadow: 0 0 50px 9px rgba(254,254,254);
        position: absolute;
        top: 0;
        left: -100%;
        height: 100%; 
        animation: load 1s infinite;
    }
    @keyframes load {
        0%{ left: -100%}
        100%{ left: 150%}
    }
</style>

How to make a Loading Placeholder with Tailwind CSS?

Install tailwind css of verion 2.0.2

Use the script html tag to import the script of Tailwind CSS of the version 2.0.2

<script src="https://cdn.tailwindcss.com"></script>

All the unility class needed to make a Loading Placeholder component

• w-full
• flex
• flex-col
• bg-white
• p-4
• mr-2
• h-20
• w-20
• overflow-hidden
• relative
• bg-gray-200
• mb-2
• h-5
• w-40
• h-10

15 steps to make a Loading Placeholder component with Tailwind CSS

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

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

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

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

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

6. Control the margin on right side of an element to 0.5rem using the mr-2 utilities.

7. Use h-20 to set an element to a fixed height(5rem).

8. Use w-20 to set an element to a fixed width(5rem).

9. Use overflow-hidden to clip any content within an element that overflows the bounds of that element.

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

11. Control the background color of an element to gray-200 using the bg-gray-200 utilities.

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

13. Use h-5 to set an element to a fixed height(1.25rem).

14. Use w-40 to set an element to a fixed width(10rem).

15. Use h-10 to set an element to a fixed height(2.5rem).

Conclusion

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