Advanced Guide: Create A Spinner With Tailwind CSS

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

A simple spinner component

Why use Tailwind CSS to make a Spinner ui component?

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

The preview of Spinner ui component

The source code of Spinner ui component

<div class="relative">
    <div class="w-20 h-20 border-purple-200 border-2 rounded-full"></div>
    <div class="w-20 h-20 border-purple-700 border-t-2 animate-spin rounded-full absolute left-0 top-0"></div>
</div>

<div class="relative">
    <div class="w-10 h-10 border-purple-200 border-2 rounded-full"></div>
    <div class="w-10 h-10 border-purple-700 border-t-2 animate-spin rounded-full absolute left-0 top-0"></div>
</div>

<div class="relative">
    <div class="w-5 h-5 border-purple-200 border-2 rounded-full"></div>
    <div class="w-5 h-5 border-purple-700 border-t-2 animate-spin rounded-full absolute left-0 top-0"></div>
</div>

How to make a Spinner 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 make a Spinner component

• relative
• w-20
• h-20
• border-purple-200
• border-2
• border-purple-700
• border-t-2
• absolute
• left-0
• top-0
• w-10
• h-10
• w-5
• h-5

14 steps to make a Spinner component with Tailwind CSS

1. Use relative to position an element according to the normal flow of the document.

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

3. Use h-20 to set an element to a fixed height(5rem).

4. Control the border color of an element to purple-200 using the border-purple-200 utilities.

5. Control the border color of an element to 0.5rem using the border-2 utilities.

6. Control the border color of an element to purple-700 using the border-purple-700 utilities.

7. Control the border color of an element to t-2 using the border-t-2 utilities.

8. Use absolute to position an element outside of the normal flow of the document, causing neighboring elements to act as if the element doesn’t exist.

9. Use the left-0 utilities to set the left position of a positioned element to 0rem.

10. Use the top-0 utilities to set the top position of a positioned element to 0rem.

11. Use w-10 to set an element to a fixed width(2.5rem).

12. Use h-10 to set an element to a fixed height(2.5rem).

13. Use w-5 to set an element to a fixed width(1.25rem).

14. Use h-5 to set an element to a fixed height(1.25rem).

Conclusion

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