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Beginners Guide: Build A Section 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 Section ui component

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Why use Tailwind CSS to build a Section ui component?

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

The preview of Section ui component

Free download of the Section's source code

The source code of Section ui component

<div class="bg-indigo-600">
        <div class="flex items-center justify-center">
            <div class="py-14 text-center px-5 sm:px-0">
                <h2 class="text-3xl sm:text-4xl text-white font-extrabold tracking-tight">
                    <span class="block">Boost your productivity.</span>
                    <span class="block">Start using Workflow today.</span>
                </h2>
                <h2 class="text-gray-50 mt-5 tracking-wide text-sm sm:text-base">
                    <span class="block">Ac euismod vel sit maecenas id pellentesque eu sed consectetur.</span>
                    <span class="block">Malesuade adipiscing sagittis vel nulla nec.</span>
                </h2>
                <div class="shadow inline-flex mt-5">
                    <a href="#" class="inline-flex items-center justify-center bg-white hover:bg-indigo-200 px-4 py-3 border border-transparent rounded-md text-indigo-500 font-medium">Sign up for free</a>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>

How to build a Section with Tailwind CSS?

Install tailwind css of verion 2.2.19

Use the script html tag to import the script of Tailwind CSS of the version 2.2.19

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

All the unility class needed to build a Section component

  • bg-indigo-600
  • flex
  • py-14
  • text-center
  • px-5
  • sm:px-0
  • text-3xl
  • sm:text-4xl
  • text-white
  • block
  • text-gray-50
  • mt-5
  • text-sm
  • sm:text-base
  • inline-flex
  • bg-white
  • hover:bg-indigo-200
  • px-4
  • py-3
  • border-transparent
  • text-indigo-500

21 steps to build a Section component with Tailwind CSS

  1. Control the background color of an element to indigo-600 using the bg-indigo-600 utilities.

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

  3. Control the vertical padding of an element to 3.5rem using the py-14 utilities.

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

  5. Control the horizontal padding of an element to 1.25rem using the px-5 utilities.

  6. Control the horizontal padding of an element to 0rem at only small screen sizes using the sm:px-0 utilities.

  7. Control the text color of an element to 3xl using the text-3xl utilities.

  8. Control the text color of an element to 4xl at only small screen sizes using the sm:text-4xl utilities.

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

  10. Use inline utilities to put the element on its own line and fill its parent.

  11. Control the text color of an element to gray-50 using the text-gray-50 utilities.

  12. Control the margin on top side of an element to 1.25rem using the mt-5 utilities.

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

  14. Control the text color of an element to base at only small screen sizes using the sm:text-base utilities.

  15. Use inline-flex to create an inline flex container that flows with text.

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

  17. Control the background color of an element to indigo-200 using the hover:bg-indigo-200 utilities on hover.

  18. Control the horizontal padding of an element to 1rem using the px-4 utilities.

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

  20. Control the border color of an element to transparent using the border-transparent utilities.

  21. Control the text color of an element to indigo-500 using the text-indigo-500 utilities.

Conclusion

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