3 Things You Must Know To Make A Progress Bar With Tailwind CSS

• What is Tailwind CSS?
• The description of progress bar ui component
• Why use Tailwind CSS to make a progress bar ui component?
• The preview of progress bar ui component
• The source code of progress bar ui component
• How to make a progress bar with Tailwind CSS?
• Install tailwind css of verion 2.0.2
• All the unility class needed to make a progress bar component
• 8 steps to make a progress 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 progress bar ui component

Progress bar in block

Why use Tailwind CSS to make a progress bar ui component?

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

The preview of progress bar ui component

The source code of progress bar ui component

<!-- This is an example component -->
<div>
    <div class="flex flex-col bg-white shadow-md w-1/2 mx-auto px-3 py-2">
        <div>
            progress bar
        </div>
        <div class="py-3">
            <div class='bg-gray-300 w-full mb-4' style="height: 4px">
                <div class='bg-green-500 w-4/6 h-full'></div>
            </div>

            <div class='bg-gray-300 w-full mb-4' style="height: 10px">
                <div class='bg-red-500 w-2/6 h-full'></div>
            </div>

            <div class='bg-gray-300 w-full' style="height: 30px">
                <div class='bg-yellow-500 w-5/6 h-full'></div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

How to make a progress bar with Tailwind CSS?

Install tailwind css of verion 2.0.2

Use the script html tag to import the script of Tailwind CSS of the version 2.0.2

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

All the unility class needed to make a progress bar component

• flex
• flex-col
• bg-white
• w-1/2
• mx-auto
• px-3
• py-2
• py-3

8 steps to make a progress bar component with Tailwind CSS

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

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

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

4. Use w-1/2 to set an element to a fixed width(1/2).

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

6. Control the horizontal padding of an element to 0.75rem using the px-3 utilities.

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

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

Conclusion

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