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How to Create A Loading Spinner With Tailwind CSS?

- What is Tailwind CSS?
- The description of Loading spinner ui component
- Why use Tailwind CSS to make a Loading spinner ui component?
- The preview of Loading spinner ui component
- The source code of Loading spinner ui component
- How to make a Loading spinner with Tailwind CSS?
- Install tailwind css of verion 3.0.18
- All the unility class needed to make a Loading spinner component
- 10 steps to make a Loading spinner 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 spinner ui component
A minimal loading spinner
Why use Tailwind CSS to make a Loading spinner ui component?
- It can make the building process of Loading spinner ui component faster and more easily.
- Enables building complex responsive layouts and components freely.
- Minimum lines of CSS code in Loading spinner component file.
The preview of Loading spinner ui component
Free download of the Loading spinner's source code
The source code of Loading spinner ui component
<div class="grid min-h-screen place-content-center">
<div class="flex items-center gap-2 text-gray-500">
<span class="h-6 w-6 block rounded-full border-4 border-t-blue-300 animate-spin"></span>
loading...
</div>
</div>
How to make a Loading spinner 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 make a Loading spinner component
grid
min-h-screen
flex
gap-2
text-gray-500
h-6
w-6
block
border-4
border-t-blue-300
10 steps to make a Loading spinner component with Tailwind CSS
Use
grid
to create a grid container.Set the minimum width/height of an element using the
min-h-screen
utilities.Use
flex
to create a block-level flex container.To specify the width between columns, you can use the
gap-2
utilities.Control the text color of an element to gray-500 using the
text-gray-500
utilities.Use
h-6
to set an element to a fixed height(1.5rem).Use
w-6
to set an element to a fixed width(1.5rem).Use
inline
utilities to put the element on its own line and fill its parent.Control the border color of an element to 1rem using the
border-4
utilities.Control the border color of an element to t-blue-300 using the
border-t-blue-300
utilities.
Conclusion
The above is a step-by-step tutorial on how to use Tailwind CSS to make a Loading spinner components, learn and follow along to implement your own components.