Ways To Create A Placeholder Card With Tailwind CSS In 60 Minutes

• What is Tailwind CSS?
• The description of Placeholder card ui component
• Why use Tailwind CSS to make a Placeholder card ui component?
• The preview of Placeholder card ui component
• The source code of Placeholder card ui component
• How to make a Placeholder card with Tailwind CSS?
• Install tailwind css of verion 2.2.4
• All the unility class needed to make a Placeholder card component
• 25 steps to make a Placeholder card 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 Placeholder card ui component

Placeholder card

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

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

The preview of Placeholder card ui component

The source code of Placeholder card ui component

<div class="max-w-xl mx-auto">
    <div class="p-4 bg-white border border-primary rounded-md">
        <div class="flex">
            <div class="mr-4 bg-gray-200 border border-gray-200 h-16 w-16 rounded animate-pulse"></div>
            <div class="space-y-1 flex flex-col w-full">
                <div class="flex w-full flex items-center">
                    <div class="bg-gray-200 border border-gray-200 w-60 h-5 animate-pulse"></div>
                    <div class="ml-4 bg-ternary w-12 h-5 animate-pulse"></div>
                </div>
                <div class="bg-gray-200 border border-gray-200 w-36 h-5 animate-pulse"></div>
                <div class="bg-gray-200 border border-gray-200 w-full h-44 animate-pulse">
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>

        <div class="mt-4 flex items-center justify-between">
            <div class="flex items-center gap-2">
                <div class="bg-gray-200 border border-gray-200 w-16 h-5 animate-pulse"></div>
                <span class="bg-tertiary h-1 w-1 rounded animate-pulse"></span>
                <div class="bg-gray-200 border border-gray-200 w-16 h-5 animate-pulse"></div>
            </div>
            <div class="bg-gray-200 border border-gray-200 w-16 h-5 animate-pulse"></div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

How to make a Placeholder card with Tailwind CSS?

Install tailwind css of verion 2.2.4

Use the script html tag to import the script of Tailwind CSS of the version 2.2.4

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

All the unility class needed to make a Placeholder card component

• max-w-xl
• mx-auto
• p-4
• bg-white
• border-primary
• flex
• mr-4
• bg-gray-200
• border-gray-200
• h-16
• w-16
• flex-col
• w-full
• w-60
• h-5
• ml-4
• bg-ternary
• w-12
• w-36
• h-44
• mt-4
• gap-2
• bg-tertiary
• h-1
• w-1

25 steps to make a Placeholder card component with Tailwind CSS

1. Set the maximum width/height of an element using the max-w-xl utilities.

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

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

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

5. Control the border color of an element to primary using the border-primary utilities.

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

7. Control the margin on right side of an element to 1rem using the mr-4 utilities.

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

9. Control the border color of an element to gray-200 using the border-gray-200 utilities.

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

11. Use w-16 to set an element to a fixed width(4rem).

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

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

14. Use w-60 to set an element to a fixed width(15rem).

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

16. Control the margin on left side of an element to 1rem using the ml-4 utilities.

17. Control the background color of an element to ternary using the bg-ternary utilities.

18. Use w-12 to set an element to a fixed width(3rem).

19. Use w-36 to set an element to a fixed width(9rem).

20. Use h-44 to set an element to a fixed height(11rem).

21. Control the margin on top side of an element to 1rem using the mt-4 utilities.

22. To specify the width between columns, you can use the gap-2 utilities.

23. Control the background color of an element to tertiary using the bg-tertiary utilities.

24. Use h-1 to set an element to a fixed height(0.25rem).

25. Use w-1 to set an element to a fixed width(0.25rem).

Conclusion

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