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Here Are 6 Ways To Create A Login Page 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 login page ui component

Instagram: ccornejo__

Why use Tailwind CSS to make a login page ui component?

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

The preview of login page ui component

Free download of the login page's source code

The source code of login page ui component

<!-- This is an example component 
    Instagram: ccornejo__ -->
<div class='grid grid-cols-12'>
        <div class="col-span-4 text-white font-sans font-bold bg-black min-h-screen pl-7">
            <div class="grid grid-rows-6 grid-flow-col min-h-screen items-center justify-items-start">
                <div class="row-span-4 row-start-2 text-4xl">
                    Sign In                    
                    <div class="pt-10 pr-20">                        
                        <label class="text-sm font-sans font-medium">
                            Username
                        </label>
                        <input 
                            type="text" 
                            name="username" 
                            placeholder="Write your username" 
                            class="w-full bg-black py-3 px-12 border hover: border-gray-500 rounded shadow text-base font-sans"/>                            
                    </div>
                    <div class="pt-2 pr-20">
                        <label class="text-sm font-sans font-medium">
                            Password
                        </label>
                        <input 
                            type="password" 
                            name="password" 
                            placeholder="Write your password" 
                            class=" w-full bg-black py-3 px-12 border hover: border-gray-500 rounded shadow text-base font-sans"/>
                        <a href="" class="text-sm font-sans font-medium text-gray-600 underline">
                            Forgot password?
                        </a>
                    </div>
                    <!-- Button -->
                    <div class="text-sm font-sans font-medium w-full pr-20 pt-14">
                        <button 
                            type="button"   
                            class="text-center w-full py-4 bg-blue-700 hover:bg-blue-400 rounded-md text-white">
                                SIGN IN
                        </button>
                    </div>
                </div>
                <!-- Text -->
                <a href="" class="text-sm font-sans font-medium text-gray-400 underline">
                    Don´t have an account? Sign up
                </a>
            </div>         
        </div>

        <!-- Second column image -->
        <div class="banner col-span-8 text-white font-sans font-bold">
            <!-- Aquí iría algún comentario -->
        </div>    
</div>



<style>
    .banner {
        background: url( 'https://s1.1zoom.me/b6058/448/Dogs_Svetlana_Shelemeteva_Hug_Little_girls_568770_1920x1080.jpg' );
        background-repeat: no-repeat;
        background-size: cover        
    }
</style>

How to make a login page 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 login page component

  • text-white
  • bg-black
  • min-h-screen
  • pl-7
  • grid
  • grid-rows-6
  • grid-flow-col
  • text-4xl
  • pt-10
  • pr-20
  • text-sm
  • w-full
  • py-3
  • px-12
  • border-gray-500
  • text-base
  • pt-2
  • text-gray-600
  • pt-14
  • text-center
  • py-4
  • bg-blue-700
  • hover:bg-blue-400
  • text-gray-400

24 steps to make a login page component with Tailwind CSS

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

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

  3. Set the minimum width/height of an element using the min-h-screen utilities.

  4. Adjust the left padding of the element to 1.75rem using the pl-7 utilities class

  5. Use grid to create a grid container.

  6. Use grid to create a grid container.

  7. Use grid to create a grid container.

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

  9. Control the padding on top side of an element to 2.5rem using the pt-10 utilities.

  10. Control the padding on right side of an element to 5rem using the pr-20 utilities.

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

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

  13. Control the vertical padding of an element to 0.75rem using the py-3 utilities.

  14. Control the horizontal padding of an element to 3rem using the px-12 utilities.

  15. Control the border color of an element to gray-500 using the border-gray-500 utilities.

  16. Control the text color of an element to base using the text-base utilities.

  17. Control the padding on top side of an element to 0.5rem using the pt-2 utilities.

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

  19. Control the padding on top side of an element to 3.5rem using the pt-14 utilities.

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

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

  22. Control the background color of an element to blue-700 using the bg-blue-700 utilities.

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

  24. Control the text color of an element to gray-400 using the text-gray-400 utilities.

Conclusion

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