Most Effective Ways To Build A Plan-bar With Tailwind CSS

• What is Tailwind CSS?
• The description of plan-bar ui component
• Why use Tailwind CSS to build a plan-bar ui component?
• The preview of plan-bar ui component
• The source code of plan-bar ui component
• How to build a plan-bar with Tailwind CSS?
• Install tailwind css of verion 3.0.18
• All the unility class needed to build a plan-bar component
• 25 steps to build a plan-bar 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 plan-bar ui component

A plan bar

Why use Tailwind CSS to build a plan-bar ui component?

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

The preview of plan-bar ui component

The source code of plan-bar ui component

<div class="w-full h-screen bg-gray-200 flex justify-center items-center">
  <div class="w-[800px] bg-white rounded-xl p-1 flex h-[80px] divide-x divide-dashed divide-gray-300 shadow-lg">
    <div class="px-2 flex flex-col justify-center items-center">
      Schwarzenegger
      <div class="text-sm text-gray-400">plan</div>
    </div>
    <div class="relative w-[30px]">
      <div class="absolute -top-6 -left-2 text-xs">····</div>
    </div>
    <div class="w-[30px] relative bg-blue-100/50">
      <div class="absolute -top-6 -left-4 text-xs">10:00</div>
      <div class="absolute -bottom-8 w-max text-sm text-gray-500">public 10:00 ~ 11:00</div>
    </div>
    <div class="w-[30px] relative bg-blue-100/50"></div>
    <div class="w-[30px] relative bg-blue-100/50"></div>
    <div class="w-[30px] relative bg-blue-100/50">
      <div class="absolute -top-6 -left-4 text-xs">10:15</div>
    </div>
    <div class="w-[30px] relative bg-blue-100/50"></div>
    <div class="w-[30px] relative bg-blue-100/50"></div>
    <div class="w-[30px] relative">
      <div class="absolute -top-6 -left-4 text-xs">10:30</div>
    </div>
    <div class="w-[30px] relative"></div>
    <div class="w-[30px] relative"></div>
    <div class="w-[30px] relative">
      <div class="absolute -top-6 -left-4 text-xs">10:45</div>
    </div>
    <div class="w-[30px] relative"></div>
    <div class="w-[30px] relative"></div>
    <div class="w-[30px] relative">
      <div class="absolute -top-6 -left-4 text-xs">11:00</div>
    </div>
    <div class="w-[30px] relative"></div>
    <div class="w-[30px] relative"></div>
    <div class="w-[30px] relative bg-orange-100/50">
      <div class="absolute -top-6 -left-4 text-xs">11:15</div>
      <div class="absolute -bottom-8 w-max text-sm text-gray-500">private 10:00 ~ 11:00</div>
    </div>
    <div class="w-[30px] relative bg-orange-100/50"></div>
    <div class="w-[30px] relative bg-orange-100/50"></div>
    <div class="w-[30px] relative bg-orange-100/50">
      <div class="absolute -top-6 -left-4 text-xs">11:30</div>
    </div>
    <div class="w-[30px] relative bg-orange-100/50"></div>
    <div class="w-[30px] relative"></div>
    <div class="w-[30px] relative">
      <div class="absolute -top-6 -left-4 text-xs">11:45</div>
    </div>
    <div class="w-[30px] relative">
      <div class="absolute -top-6 -right-2 text-xs">····</div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

How to build a plan-bar 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 build a plan-bar component

• w-full
• h-screen
• bg-gray-200
• flex
• w-[800px]
• bg-white
• p-1
• h-[80px]
• px-2
• flex-col
• text-sm
• text-gray-400
• relative
• w-[30px]
• absolute
• -top-6
• -left-2
• text-xs
• bg-blue-100/50
• -left-4
• -bottom-8
• w-max
• text-gray-500
• bg-orange-100/50
• -right-2

25 steps to build a plan-bar component with Tailwind CSS

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

2. Use h-screen to make an element span the entire height of the viewport.

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

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

5. Use w-[800px] to set an element to a fixed width([800px]).

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

7. Control the padding on all sides of an element to 0.25rem using the p-1 utilities.

8. Use h-[80px] to set an element to a fixed height([80px]).

9. Control the horizontal padding of an element to 0.5rem using the px-2 utilities.

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

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

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

13. Use relative to position an element according to the normal flow of the document.

14. Use w-[30px] to set an element to a fixed width([30px]).

15. Use absolute to position an element outside of the normal flow of the document, causing neighboring elements to act as if the element doesn’t exist.

16. Use the -top-6 utilities to set the top position of a positioned element to -1.5rem.

17. Use the -left-2 utilities to set the left position of a positioned element to -0.5rem.

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

19. Control the background color of an element to blue-100/50 using the bg-blue-100/50 utilities.

20. Use the -left-4 utilities to set the left position of a positioned element to -1rem.

21. Use the -bottom-8 utilities to set the bottom position of a positioned element to -2rem.

22. Use w-max to set an element to a fixed width(max).

23. Control the text color of an element to gray-500 using the text-gray-500 utilities.

24. Control the background color of an element to orange-100/50 using the bg-orange-100/50 utilities.

25. Use the -right-2 utilities to set the right position of a positioned element to -0.5rem.

Conclusion

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