6 Tips To Build A Simple Table With Tailwind CSS

• What is Tailwind CSS?
• The description of Simple Table ui component
• Why use Tailwind CSS to build a Simple Table ui component?
• The preview of Simple Table ui component
• The source code of Simple Table ui component
• How to build a Simple Table with Tailwind CSS?
• Install tailwind css of verion 3.0.18
• All the unility class needed to build a Simple Table component
• 11 steps to build a Simple Table 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 Table ui component

Simplistic table

Why use Tailwind CSS to build a Simple Table ui component?

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

The preview of Simple Table ui component

The source code of Simple Table ui component

<div class="bg-white">

<div class="overflow-x-auto border-x border-t">
   <table class="table-auto w-full">
      <thead class="border-b">
         <tr class="bg-gray-100">
            <th class="text-left p-4 font-medium">
               Name
            </th>
            <th class="text-left p-4 font-medium">
               Email
            </th>
            <th class="text-left p-4 font-medium">
               Role
            </th>
         </tr>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
         <tr class="border-b hover:bg-gray-50">
            <td class="p-4">
               Prof. Lucie Waters 
            </td>
            <td class="p-4">
               [email protected] 
            </td>
            <td class="p-4">
               Administrator
            </td>
         </tr>
         <tr class="border-b hover:bg-gray-50">
            <td class="p-4">
               Anahi Bashirian (You) 
            </td>
            <td class="p-4">
               [email protected]  
            </td>
            <td class="p-4">
               Super Administrator 
            </td>
         </tr>
      </tbody>
   </table>
</div>
</div>

How to build a Simple Table with Tailwind CSS?

Install tailwind css of verion 3.0.18

Use the script html tag to import the script of Tailwind CSS of the version 3.0.18

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

All the unility class needed to build a Simple Table component

• bg-white
• overflow-x-auto
• border-x
• border-t
• table-auto
• w-full
• border-b
• bg-gray-100
• text-left
• p-4
• hover:bg-gray-50

11 steps to build a Simple Table component with Tailwind CSS

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

2. Use overflow-x-auto to allow horizontal scrolling if needed.

3. Control the border color of an element to x using the border-x utilities.

4. Control the border color of an element to t using the border-t utilities.

5. Use the table utilities to create elements that behave like their respective table elements.

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

7. Control the border color of an element to b using the border-b utilities.

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

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

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

11. Control the background color of an element to gray-50 using the hover:bg-gray-50 utilities on hover.

Conclusion

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