What You Need To Build A simple Slider With Tailwind CSS

• What is Tailwind CSS?
• The description of simple Slider ui component
• Why use Tailwind CSS to create a simple Slider ui component?
• The preview of simple Slider ui component
• The source code of simple Slider ui component
• How to create a simple Slider with Tailwind CSS?
• Install tailwind css of verion 2.2.4
• All the unility class needed to create a simple Slider component
• 14 steps to create a simple Slider 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 simple Slider ui component

This is simple slider

Why use Tailwind CSS to create a simple Slider ui component?

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

The preview of simple Slider ui component

The source code of simple Slider ui component

<div class="flex justify-center w-full" >
    <div class="flex items-center justify-between flex-col flex-nowrap w-80">
        <div class="slider flex overflow-auto flex-none w-full flex-row flex-nowrap" dir="ltr">
            <div class="items text-center py-12 min-w-full bg-red-200">
            1
            </div>
            <div class="items text-center py-12 min-w-full bg-blue-200">
            2
            </div>
            <div class="items text-center py-12 min-w-full bg-green-200">
            3
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

<style scoped>
.slider {
  scroll-snap-type: x mandatory;
}
.items {
  scroll-snap-align: center;
}
</style>

How to create a simple Slider 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 create a simple Slider component

• flex
• w-full
• flex-col
• flex-nowrap
• w-80
• overflow-auto
• flex-none
• flex-row
• text-center
• py-12
• min-w-full
• bg-red-200
• bg-blue-200
• bg-green-200

14 steps to create a simple Slider component with Tailwind CSS

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

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

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

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

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

6. Use overflow-auto to add scrollbars to an element in the event that its content overflows the bounds of that element. Unlike .overflow-scroll, which always shows scrollbars, this utility will only show them if scrolling is necessary.

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

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

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

10. Control the vertical padding of an element to 3rem using the py-12 utilities.

11. Set the minimum width/height of an element using the min-w-full utilities.

12. Control the background color of an element to red-200 using the bg-red-200 utilities.

13. Control the background color of an element to blue-200 using the bg-blue-200 utilities.

14. Control the background color of an element to green-200 using the bg-green-200 utilities.

Conclusion

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