6 Incredibly Easy Ways To Create A Mac Terminal With Tailwind CSS Better While Spending Less

• What is Tailwind CSS?
• The description of Mac Terminal ui component
• Why use Tailwind CSS to create a Mac Terminal ui component?
• The preview of Mac Terminal ui component
• The source code of Mac Terminal ui component
• How to create a Mac Terminal with Tailwind CSS?
• Install tailwind css of verion 1.0.4
• All the unility class needed to create a Mac Terminal component
• 30 steps to create a Mac Terminal 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 Mac Terminal ui component

Terminal like on mac

Why use Tailwind CSS to create a Mac Terminal ui component?

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

The preview of Mac Terminal ui component

The source code of Mac Terminal ui component

<div class="w-1/2 mx-auto">
  <div class="w-full shadow-2xl subpixel-antialiased rounded h-64 bg-black border-black mx-auto">
    <div class="flex items-center h-6 rounded-t bg-gray-100 border-b border-gray-500 text-center text-black" id="headerTerminal">
      <div class="flex ml-2 items-center text-center border-red-900 bg-red-500 shadow-inner rounded-full w-3 h-3" id="closebtn">
      </div>
      <div class="ml-2 border-yellow-900 bg-yellow-500 shadow-inner rounded-full w-3 h-3" id="minbtn">
      </div>
      <div class="ml-2 border-green-900 bg-green-500 shadow-inner rounded-full w-3 h-3" id="maxbtn">
      </div>
      <div class="mx-auto pr-16" id="terminaltitle">
        <p class="text-center text-sm">Terminal</p>
      </div>

    </div>
    <div class="pl-1 pt-1 h-auto  text-green-200 font-mono text-xs bg-black" id="console">
      <p class="pb-1">Last login: Wed Sep 25 09:11:04 on ttys002</p>
      <p class="pb-1">Laraben:Devprojects laraben$</p>
    </div>
  </div> 
</div>

How to create a Mac Terminal with Tailwind CSS?

Install tailwind css of verion 1.0.4

Use the link html tag to import the stylesheet of Tailwind CSS of the version 1.0.4

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

All the unility class needed to create a Mac Terminal component

• w-1/2
• mx-auto
• w-full
• h-64
• bg-black
• border-black
• flex
• h-6
• bg-gray-100
• border-b
• border-gray-500
• text-center
• text-black
• ml-2
• border-red-900
• bg-red-500
• w-3
• h-3
• border-yellow-900
• bg-yellow-500
• border-green-900
• bg-green-500
• pr-16
• text-sm
• pl-1
• pt-1
• h-auto
• text-green-200
• text-xs
• pb-1

30 steps to create a Mac Terminal component with Tailwind CSS

1. Use w-1/2 to set an element to a fixed width(1/2).

2. Control the horizontal margin of an element to auto using the mx-auto utilities.

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

4. Use h-64 to set an element to a fixed height(16rem).

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

6. Control the border color of an element to black using the border-black utilities.

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

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

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

10. Control the border color of an element to b using the border-b utilities.

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

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

13. Control the text color of an element to black using the text-black utilities.

14. Control the margin on left side of an element to 0.5rem using the ml-2 utilities.

15. Control the border color of an element to red-900 using the border-red-900 utilities.

16. Control the background color of an element to red-500 using the bg-red-500 utilities.

17. Use w-3 to set an element to a fixed width(0.75rem).

18. Use h-3 to set an element to a fixed height(0.75rem).

19. Control the border color of an element to yellow-900 using the border-yellow-900 utilities.

20. Control the background color of an element to yellow-500 using the bg-yellow-500 utilities.

21. Control the border color of an element to green-900 using the border-green-900 utilities.

22. Control the background color of an element to green-500 using the bg-green-500 utilities.

23. Control the padding on right side of an element to 4rem using the pr-16 utilities.

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

25. Set the left padding of an element to 0.25rem using the pl-1 utilities class

26. Control the padding on top side of an element to 0.25rem using the pt-1 utilities.

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

28. Control the text color of an element to green-200 using the text-green-200 utilities.

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

30. Control the padding on bottom side of an element to 0.25rem using the pb-1 utilities.

Conclusion

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