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Learn How To Make A Steam Featured Game Card With Tailwind CSS from the Pros

Steam Featured Game Card

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.

Same animations and original images. had to change the colors to ugly ones since i'm unable to add custom colors since there is no tailwind.config in this tool...

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

Free download of the Steam Featured Game Card's source code

<!-- This is an example component -->
<div>
	<div class="group 
  overflow-hidden
   relative shadow-lg max-w-xs">
		<a href="#" class="absolute z-10 top-0 bottom-0 left-0 right-0"><a />
			<img
    class="block group-hover:opacity-40 transition-opacity duration-700"
    src="https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/230410/hero_capsule.jpg?t=1637183731"
    />
			<div
				class="absolute bg-black flex items-center group-hover:-top-0 group-hover:opacity-100 duration-700 top-full right-0 w-full opacity-0 h-1/2 transition-all">
				<div class=""
					style="background-image: url(&quot;https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/230410/ss_2d79448091149a8cc790b62e7422615a011d015a.600x338.jpg?t=1637183731&quot;);">
					<video class="w-full" autoplay loop="" preload="none" muted="muted">
						<source
							src="https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256860783/microtrailer.webm?t=1637095595?v=3"
							type="video/webm">
					</video>
				</div>
			</div>
			<div class="absolute  bg-gradient-to-br duration-700 from-green-800 to-blue-800 text-white block left-0 right-0 top-full text-base h-1/2 w-full opacity-50 
    transition-all group-hover:top-1/2 group-hover:opacity-100">
				<div class="py-4 text-xs px-7">
					<div class="text-xl font-bold">Warframe</div>
					<div class="overflow-ellipsis overflow-hidden whitespace-nowrap">
						<span class="uppercase text-gray-400 whitespace-nowrap text-xs md:text-sm">Developer:</span>
						<span class="whitespace-nowrap overflow-hidden overflow-ellipsis relative z-20">
													<a href="https://store.steampowered.com/developer/DigitalExtremes?snr=1_4_600__629">Digital Extremes</a>												</span>
					</div>
					<div class="whitespace-nowrap overflow-hidden overflow-ellipsis relative z-20">
						<span class="uppercase text-gray-400 whitespace-nowrap text-xs md:text-sm">Publisher:</span>
						<span class="whitespace-nowrap overflow-hidden overflow-ellipsis relative z-20">
														<a href="https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/DigitalExtremes?snr=1_4_600__629">Digital Extremes</a>												</span>
					</div>
					<div class="whitespace-nowrap overflow-hidden overflow-ellipsis relative z-20">
						<span class="uppercase text-gray-400 whitespace-nowrap text-xs md:text-sm">All Reviews:</span>
						<span class="whitespace-nowrap overflow-hidden overflow-ellipsis relative z-20">
													<span class="text-positive">
														Very Positive													</span>
						<span class="text-gray-300">(2,912)</span>
						</span>
					</div>
				</div>
				<div class="absolute left-0  pl-7 pt-1">
					<button href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/230410/Warframe/" class="px-4 text-base block text-green-300 rounded-sm border-2 border-opacity-20 bg-gradient-to-b duration-700 from-green-400 to-green-800">
						Install now
					</button>
				</div>
			</div>
	</div>
</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>
  • relative
  • max-w-xs
  • absolute
  • z-10
  • top-0
  • bottom-0
  • left-0
  • right-0
  • block
  • bg-black
  • flex
  • group-hover:-top-0
  • top-full
  • w-full
  • h-1/2
  • bg-gradient-to-br
  • text-white
  • text-base
  • group-hover:top-1/2
  • py-4
  • text-xs
  • px-7
  • text-xl
  • overflow-hidden
  • text-gray-400
  • md:text-sm
  • z-20
  • text-positive
  • text-gray-300
  • pl-7
  • pt-1
  • px-4
  • text-green-300
  • border-2
  • border-opacity-20
  • bg-gradient-to-b
  1. Use relative to position an element according to the normal flow of the document.

  2. Set the maximum width/height of an element using the max-w-xs utilities.

  3. 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.

  4. Control the stack order (or three-dimensional positioning) of an element to 10 in Tailwind, regardless of order it has been displayed, using the z-10 utilities.

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

  6. Use the bottom-0 utilities to set the bottom position of a positioned element to 0rem.

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

  8. Use the right-0 utilities to set the right position of a positioned element to 0rem.

  9. Use inline utilities to put the element on its own line and fill its parent.

  10. Control the background color of an element to black using the bg-black utilities.

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

  12. Use the group-hover:-top-0 utilities to set the top position of a positioned element to 0remundefined.

  13. Use the top-full utilities to set the top position of a positioned element to full.

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

  15. Use h-1/2 to set an element to a fixed height(1/2).

  16. Control the background color of an element to gradient-to-br using the bg-gradient-to-br utilities.

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

  18. Control the text color of an element to base using the text-base utilities.

  19. Use the group-hover:top-1/2 utilities to set the top position of a positioned element to 1/2undefined.

  20. Control the vertical padding of an element to 1rem using the py-4 utilities.

  21. Control the text color of an element to xs using the text-xs utilities.

  22. Control the horizontal padding of an element to 1.75rem using the px-7 utilities.

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

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

  25. Control the text color of an element to gray-400 using the text-gray-400 utilities.

  26. Control the text color of an element to sm at only medium screen sizes using the md:text-sm utilities.

  27. Control the stack order (or three-dimensional positioning) of an element to 20 in Tailwind, regardless of order it has been displayed, using the z-20 utilities.

  28. Control the text color of an element to positive using the text-positive utilities.

  29. Control the text color of an element to gray-300 using the text-gray-300 utilities.

  30. Set the left padding of an element to 1.75rem using the pl-7 utilities class

  31. Control the padding on top side of an element to 0.25rem using the pt-1 utilities.

  32. Control the horizontal padding of an element to 1rem using the px-4 utilities.

  33. Control the text color of an element to green-300 using the text-green-300 utilities.

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

  35. Control the border color of an element to opacity-20 using the border-opacity-20 utilities.

  36. Control the background color of an element to gradient-to-b using the bg-gradient-to-b utilities.

Conclusion

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