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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 Post card ui component

Card for yours posts

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

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

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The source code of Post card ui component

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	<div class="border max-w-screen-md bg-white mt-6 rounded-2xl p-4">
		<div class="flex items-center	justify-between">
			<div class="gap-3.5	flex items-center ">
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				<div class="flex flex-col">
					<b class="mb-2 capitalize">sofia müller</b>
					<time datetime="06-08-21" class="text-gray-400 text-xs">06 August at 09.15 PM
					</time>
				</div>
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		<div class="whitespace-pre-wrap mt-7">Hello guys 🥰</div>
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					<div class="text-sm	">10 Comments</div>
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				<div class="flex items-center	gap-3">
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					<div class="text-sm">5 Likes</div>
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				<div class="flex items-center	gap-3">
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					<div class="text-sm">Share</div>
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				<div class="flex items-center	gap-3">
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					<div class="text-sm">Saved</div>
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				<div class="flex items-center	justify-between	 bg-gray-50 h-11 w-11/12 border rounded-2xl	 overflow-hidden px-4 "
					<input type="text" class="h-full w-full bg-gray-50 outline-none " placeholder="Write your comment..." name="comment">
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</main>

How to make a Post 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 Post card component

  • h-full
  • w-full
  • bg-gray-50
  • flex
  • max-w-screen-md
  • bg-white
  • mt-6
  • p-4
  • gap-3.5 flex
  • bg-yellow-500
  • w-10
  • h-10
  • flex-col
  • mb-2
  • text-gray-400
  • text-xs
  • bg-gray-100 rounded-full
  • h-3.5
  • mt-7
  • mt-5
  • gap-2
  • border-b
  • pb-4
  • flex-wrap
  • bg-red-500
  • w-1/3
  • h-96
  • flex-auto
  • h-16
  • text-sm
  • h-6
  • w-6
  • text-red-500
  • mt-4
  • h-11
  • w-11/12
  • overflow-hidden
  • px-4

38 steps to make a Post card component with Tailwind CSS

  1. Use h-full to set an element’s height to 100% of its parent, as long as the parent has a defined height.

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

  3. Control the background color of an element to gray-50 using the bg-gray-50 utilities.

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

  5. Set the maximum width/height of an element using the max-w-screen-md utilities.

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

  7. Control the margin on top side of an element to 1.5rem using the mt-6 utilities.

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

  9. To specify the width between columns, you can use the gap-3.5 flex utilities.

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

  11. Use w-10 to set an element to a fixed width(2.5rem).

  12. Use h-10 to set an element to a fixed height(2.5rem).

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

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

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

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

  17. Control the background color of an element to gray-100 rounded-full using the bg-gray-100 rounded-full utilities.

  18. Use h-3.5 to set an element to a fixed height(3.5).

  19. Control the margin on top side of an element to 1.75rem using the mt-7 utilities.

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

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

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

  23. Control the padding on bottom side of an element to 1rem using the pb-4 utilities.

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

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

  26. Use w-1/3 to set an element to a fixed width(1/3).

  27. Use h-96 to set an element to a fixed height(24rem).

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

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

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

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

  32. Use w-6 to set an element to a fixed width(1.5rem).

  33. Control the text color of an element to red-500 using the text-red-500 utilities.

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

  35. Use h-11 to set an element to a fixed height(2.75rem).

  36. Use w-11/12 to set an element to a fixed width(11/12).

  37. Use overflow-hidden to clip any content within an element that overflows the bounds of that element.

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

Conclusion

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