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6 Steps To Create A Product Preview With Tailwind CSS Like A Pro In Under An Hour

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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 Product Preview ui component

Product preiew card for admins

Why use Tailwind CSS to build a Product Preview ui component?

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

The preview of Product Preview ui component

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The source code of Product Preview ui component

<!-- item card -->
<div class="md:flex shadow-lg  mx-6 md:mx-auto my-40 max-w-lg md:max-w-2xl h-64">
   <img class="h-full w-full md:w-1/3  object-cover rounded-lg rounded-r-none pb-5/6" src="https://ik.imagekit.io/q5edmtudmz/FB_IMG_15658659197157667_wOd8n5yFyXI.jpg" alt="bag">
   <div class="w-full md:w-2/3 px-4 py-4 bg-white rounded-lg">
      <div class="flex items-center">
         <h2 class="text-xl text-gray-800 font-medium mr-auto">Your Travel Buddy</h2>
         <p class="text-gray-800 font-semibold tracking-tighter">
            only
            <i class="text-gray-600 line-through">60$</i>
            48$
         </p>
      </div>
      <p class="text-sm text-gray-700 mt-4">
         Lorem, ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur Amet veritatis ipsam reiciendis numquam tempore commodi ipsa suscipit laboriosam, sit earum at sequ adipisicing elit. Amet veritatis ipsam reiciendis numquam tempore commodi ipsa suscipit laboriosam, sit earum at sequi.
      </p>
      <div class="flex items-center justify-end mt-4 top-auto">
         <button class="bg-white text-red-500 px-4 py-2 rounded mr-auto hover:underline">Delete</button>
         <button class=" bg-gray-200 text-blue-600 px-2 py-2 rounded-md mr-2">Edit</button>
         <button class=" bg-blue-600 text-gray-200 px-2 py-2 rounded-md ">Publish</button>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

How to build a Product Preview with Tailwind CSS?

Install tailwind css of verion 1.4.6

Use the link html tag to import the stylesheet of Tailwind CSS of the version 1.4.6

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

All the unility class needed to build a Product Preview component

  • md:flex
  • mx-6
  • md:mx-auto
  • my-40
  • max-w-lg
  • md:max-w-2xl
  • h-64
  • h-full
  • w-full
  • md:w-1/3
  • pb-5/6
  • md:w-2/3
  • px-4
  • py-4
  • bg-white
  • flex
  • text-xl
  • text-gray-800
  • mr-auto
  • text-gray-600
  • text-sm
  • text-gray-700
  • mt-4
  • top-auto
  • text-red-500
  • py-2
  • bg-gray-200
  • text-blue-600
  • px-2
  • mr-2
  • bg-blue-600
  • text-gray-200

32 steps to build a Product Preview component with Tailwind CSS

  1. Use flex to create a block-level flex container at only medium screen sizes.

  2. Control the horizontal margin of an element to 1.5rem using the mx-6 utilities.

  3. Control the horizontal margin of an element to auto at only medium screen sizes using the md:mx-auto utilities.

  4. Control the vertical margin of an element to 10rem using the my-40 utilities.

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

  6. Set the maximum width/height of an element using the md:max-w-2xl utilities at only medium screen sizes.

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

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

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

  10. Use md:w-1/3 to set an element to a fixed width(1/3) at only medium screen sizes.

  11. Control the padding on bottom side of an element to 5/6 using the pb-5/6 utilities.

  12. Use md:w-2/3 to set an element to a fixed width(2/3) at only medium screen sizes.

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

  14. Control the vertical padding of an element to 1rem using the py-4 utilities.

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

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

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

  18. Control the text color of an element to gray-800 using the text-gray-800 utilities.

  19. Control the margin on right side of an element to auto using the mr-auto utilities.

  20. Control the text color of an element to gray-600 using the text-gray-600 utilities.

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

  22. Control the text color of an element to gray-700 using the text-gray-700 utilities.

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

  24. Use the top-auto utilities to set the top position of a positioned element to auto.

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

  26. Control the vertical padding of an element to 0.5rem using the py-2 utilities.

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

  28. Control the text color of an element to blue-600 using the text-blue-600 utilities.

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

  30. Control the margin on right side of an element to 0.5rem using the mr-2 utilities.

  31. Control the background color of an element to blue-600 using the bg-blue-600 utilities.

  32. Control the text color of an element to gray-200 using the text-gray-200 utilities.

Conclusion

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