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6 Ideas To Help You Build A Progress Bar With Tailwind CSS Like A Pro

Progress Bar

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

play.tailwindcss.com/xvaulqlyg5

Why use Tailwind CSS to build 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

Free download of the Progress Bar's source code

The source code of Progress Bar ui component

<div class="flex h-screen bg-white">
  <div class="m-auto">
    <div class="p-3 shadow-lg rounded-lg">
      <div class="w-80 h-auto bg-gray-100 p-3 rounded-full">
        <div class="inline-block w-40 h-auto bg-gradient-to-r from-pink-500 via-red-500 to-yellow-500 rounded-full p-2"></div>
        <div class="inline-block font-bold text-yellow-600">
          50%
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="text-lg text-center text-gray-700 font-bold">
        Your order is being prepared!
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

How to build a Progress Bar 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 build a Progress Bar component

  • flex
  • h-screen
  • bg-white
  • m-auto
  • p-3
  • w-80
  • h-auto
  • bg-gray-100
  • inline-block
  • w-40
  • bg-gradient-to-r
  • p-2
  • text-yellow-600
  • text-lg
  • text-center
  • text-gray-700

16 steps to build a Progress Bar component with Tailwind CSS

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

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

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

  4. Control the margin on all sides of an element to auto using the m-auto utilities.

  5. Control the padding on all sides of an element to 0.75rem using the p-3 utilities.

  6. Use w-80 to set an element to a fixed width(20rem).

  7. Use h-auto to set an element to a fixed height(auto).

  8. Control the background color of an element to gray-100 using the bg-gray-100 utilities.

  9. Use inline-block utilities to wrap the element to prevent the text inside from extending beyond its parent.

  10. Use w-40 to set an element to a fixed width(10rem).

  11. Control the background color of an element to gradient-to-r using the bg-gradient-to-r utilities.

  12. Control the padding on all sides of an element to 0.5rem using the p-2 utilities.

  13. Control the text color of an element to yellow-600 using the text-yellow-600 utilities.

  14. Control the text color of an element to lg using the text-lg utilities.

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

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

Conclusion

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