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Most Effective Ways To Create A Responsive Gallery With Tailwind CSS

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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.

This is a good responsive gallery, created with tailwind

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

Free download of the Responsive Gallery's source code

<div class='mx-auto'>
  
 <!--Gallery 1-->
<!--Responsive grid-->
<div class="mx-auto px-2 my-1">
 <h2 class="text-4xl bg-gray-700 p-4 rounded-sm text-white text-center">GALLERY  </h2>
<div class="grid grid-cols-1 md:grid-cols-2 lg:grid-cols-2 gap-2">
<div class="flex justify-center text-6xl border-1 border-gray-300 rounded-sm p-2 bg-gray-500 hover:bg-red-700"><img class="w-full rounded-sm bg-red-500" src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1636657156745-338e53598328?ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHxlZGl0b3JpYWwtZmVlZHwxOXx8fGVufDB8fHx8&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=500&q=60" /></div>
<div class="flex justify-center text-6xl border-1 border-gray-300 rounded-sm p-2 bg-gray-500 hover:bg-red-700"><img class="w-full rounded-sm" src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1636657156745-338e53598328?ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHxlZGl0b3JpYWwtZmVlZHwxOXx8fGVufDB8fHx8&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=500&q=60" /></div>
<div class="flex justify-center text-6xl border-1 border-gray-300 rounded-sm p-2 bg-gray-500 hover:bg-red-700"><img class="w-full rounded-sm" src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1636657156745-338e53598328?ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHxlZGl0b3JpYWwtZmVlZHwxOXx8fGVufDB8fHx8&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=500&q=60" /></div>
<div class="flex justify-center text-6xl border-1 border-gray-300 rounded-sm p-2 bg-gray-500 hover:bg-red-700"><img class="w-full rounded-sm" src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1636657156745-338e53598328?ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHxlZGl0b3JpYWwtZmVlZHwxOXx8fGVufDB8fHx8&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=500&q=60" /></div>
</div>
</div>
<!--/Gallery 1-->
 


 
<!--Gallery 2-->
<div class="mx-auto px-2 my-10">
<div class="grid grid-cols-1 md:grid-cols-2 lg:grid-cols-2 gap-2">
<div class="flex justify-center text-6xl border-1 border-gray-300 rounded-sm p-2 bg-gray-500"><img class="w-full rounded-sm" src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1636548646163-a14de6514ce0?ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHxlZGl0b3JpYWwtZmVlZHwzOHx8fGVufDB8fHx8&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=500&q=60" /></div>
<div class="flex justify-center text-6xl border-1 border-gray-300 rounded-sm p-2 bg-gray-500"><img class="w-full rounded-sm" src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1636548646163-a14de6514ce0?ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHxlZGl0b3JpYWwtZmVlZHwzOHx8fGVufDB8fHx8&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=500&q=60" /></div>
<div class="flex justify-center text-6xl border-1 border-gray-300 rounded-sm p-2 bg-gray-500"><img class="w-full rounded-sm" src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1636548646163-a14de6514ce0?ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHxlZGl0b3JpYWwtZmVlZHwzOHx8fGVufDB8fHx8&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=500&q=60" /></div>
<div class="flex justify-center text-6xl border-1 border-gray-300 rounded-sm p-2 bg-gray-500"><img class="w-full rounded-sm" src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1636548646163-a14de6514ce0?ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHxlZGl0b3JpYWwtZmVlZHwzOHx8fGVufDB8fHx8&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=500&q=60" /></div>
</div>
</div>
<!--/Gallery 2-->

 
</div>

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>
  • mx-auto
  • px-2
  • my-1
  • text-4xl
  • bg-gray-700
  • p-4
  • text-white
  • text-center
  • grid
  • grid-cols-1
  • md:grid-cols-2
  • lg:grid-cols-2
  • gap-2
  • flex
  • text-6xl
  • border-1
  • border-gray-300
  • p-2
  • bg-gray-500
  • hover:bg-red-700
  • w-full
  • bg-red-500
  • my-10

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

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

  3. Control the vertical margin of an element to 0.25rem using the my-1 utilities.

  4. Control the text color of an element to 4xl using the text-4xl utilities.

  5. Control the background color of an element to gray-700 using the bg-gray-700 utilities.

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

  7. Control the text color of an element to white using the text-white utilities.

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

  9. Use grid to create a grid container.

  10. Use grid to create a grid container.

  11. Use grid to create a grid container at only medium screen sizes.

  12. Use grid to create a grid container at only large screen sizes.

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

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

  15. Control the text color of an element to 6xl using the text-6xl utilities.

  16. Control the border color of an element to 0.25rem using the border-1 utilities.

  17. Control the border color of an element to gray-300 using the border-gray-300 utilities.

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

  19. Control the background color of an element to gray-500 using the bg-gray-500 utilities.

  20. Control the background color of an element to red-700 using the hover:bg-red-700 utilities on hover.

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

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

  23. Control the vertical margin of an element to 2.5rem using the my-10 utilities.

Conclusion

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