Surprisingly Effective Ways To Build A Slider With Tailwind CSS

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

A simple tailwindcss slider made without js library

Why use Tailwind CSS to build a Slider ui component?

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

The preview of Slider ui component

The source code of Slider ui component

<div class="h-screen w-full overflow-hidden flex flex-nowrap text-center" id="slider">
    <div class="bg-blue-600 text-white space-y-4 flex-none w-full flex flex-col items-center justify-center">
        <h2 class="text-4xl max-w-md">Your Big Ideia</h2>
        <p class="max-w-md">It's fast, flexible, and reliable — with zero-runtime.</p>
    </div>
    <div class="bg-pink-400 text-white space-y-4 flex-none w-full flex flex-col items-center justify-center">
        <h2 class="text-4xl max-w-md">Tailwind CSS works by scanning all of your HTML</h2>
        <p class="max-w-md">It's fast, flexible, and reliable — with zero-runtime.</p>
    </div>
    <div class="bg-teal-500 text-white space-y-4 flex-none w-full flex flex-col items-center justify-center">
        <h2 class="text-4xl max-w-md">React, Vue, and HTML</h2>
        <p class="max-w-md">Accessible, interactive examples for React and Vue powered by Headless UI, plus vanilla HTML if you’d rather write any necessary JS yourself.</p>
    </div>
</div>
<script>
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
    const slider = document.querySelector('#slider');
    setTimeout(function moveSlide() {
        const max = slider.scrollWidth - slider.clientWidth;
        const left = slider.clientWidth;

        if (max === slider.scrollLeft) {
            slider.scrollTo({left: 0, behavior: 'smooth'})
        } else {
            slider.scrollBy({left, behavior: 'smooth'})
        }

        setTimeout(moveSlide, 2000)
    }, 2000)

})
</script>

How to build a Slider 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 Slider component

• h-screen
• w-full
• overflow-hidden
• flex
• flex-nowrap
• text-center
• bg-blue-600
• text-white
• flex-none
• flex-col
• text-4xl
• max-w-md
• bg-pink-400
• bg-teal-500

14 steps to build a Slider component with Tailwind CSS

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

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

3. Use overflow-hidden to clip any content within an element that overflows the bounds of that element.

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

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

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

7. Control the background color of an element to blue-600 using the bg-blue-600 utilities.

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

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

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

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

12. Set the maximum width/height of an element using the max-w-md utilities.

13. Control the background color of an element to pink-400 using the bg-pink-400 utilities.

14. Control the background color of an element to teal-500 using the bg-teal-500 utilities.

Conclusion

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