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The 5 Really Obvious Ways To Make A Responsive footer With Tailwind CSS Better That You Ever Did

- What is Tailwind CSS?
- The description of Responsive footer ui component
- Why use Tailwind CSS to create a Responsive footer ui component?
- The preview of Responsive footer ui component
- The source code of Responsive footer ui component
- How to create a Responsive footer with Tailwind CSS?
- Install tailwind css of verion 1.3.4
- All the unility class needed to create a Responsive footer component
- 28 steps to create a Responsive footer 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 Responsive footer ui component
Responsive footer with links and tags
Why use Tailwind CSS to create a Responsive footer ui component?
- It can make the building process of Responsive footer ui component faster and more easily.
- Enables building complex responsive layouts and components freely.
- Minimum lines of CSS code in Responsive footer component file.
The preview of Responsive footer ui component
Free download of the Responsive footer's source code
The source code of Responsive footer ui component
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How to create a Responsive footer with Tailwind CSS?
Install tailwind css of verion 1.3.4
Use the link
html tag to import the stylesheet of Tailwind CSS of the version 1.3.4
<link href=https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/tailwind.min.css rel="stylesheet">
All the unility class needed to create a Responsive footer component
bg-gray-100
max-w-6xl
m-auto
text-gray-800
flex
flex-wrap
p-5
w-48
text-xs
text-gray-500
my-3
block
text-teal-600
p-1
pt-2
pb-5
px-3
pt-5
border-t
text-sm
md:flex-row
mt-2
md:flex-auto
md:flex-row-reverse
flex-row
w-6
mx-1
hover:text-gray-400
28 steps to create a Responsive footer component with Tailwind CSS
Control the background color of an element to gray-100 using the
bg-gray-100
utilities.Set the maximum width/height of an element using the
max-w-6xl
utilities.Control the margin on all sides of an element to auto using the
m-auto
utilities.Control the text color of an element to gray-800 using the
text-gray-800
utilities.Use
flex
to create a block-level flex container.Use
flex
to create a block-level flex container.Control the padding on all sides of an element to 1.25rem using the
p-5
utilities.Use
w-48
to set an element to a fixed width(12rem).Control the text color of an element to xs using the
text-xs
utilities.Control the text color of an element to gray-500 using the
text-gray-500
utilities.Control the vertical margin of an element to 0.75rem using the
my-3
utilities.Use
inline
utilities to put the element on its own line and fill its parent.Control the text color of an element to teal-600 using the
text-teal-600
utilities.Control the padding on all sides of an element to 0.25rem using the
p-1
utilities.Control the padding on top side of an element to 0.5rem using the
pt-2
utilities.Control the padding on bottom side of an element to 1.25rem using the
pb-5
utilities.Control the horizontal padding of an element to 0.75rem using the
px-3
utilities.Control the padding on top side of an element to 1.25rem using the
pt-5
utilities.Control the border color of an element to t using the
border-t
utilities.Control the text color of an element to sm using the
text-sm
utilities.Use
flex
to create a block-level flex container at only medium screen sizes.Control the margin on top side of an element to 0.5rem using the
mt-2
utilities.Use
flex
to create a block-level flex container at only medium screen sizes.Use
flex
to create a block-level flex container at only medium screen sizes.Use
flex
to create a block-level flex container.Use
w-6
to set an element to a fixed width(1.5rem).Control the horizontal margin of an element to 0.25rem using the
mx-1
utilities.Control the text color of an element to gray-400 on hover using the
hover:text-gray-400
utilities.
Conclusion
The above is a step-by-step tutorial on how to use Tailwind CSS to create a Responsive footer components, learn and follow along to implement your own components.