Beginners Guide: Create A TimeLine With Tailwind CSS

• What is Tailwind CSS?
• The description of TimeLine ui component
• Why use Tailwind CSS to create a TimeLine ui component?
• The preview of TimeLine ui component
• The source code of TimeLine ui component
• How to create a TimeLine with Tailwind CSS?
• Install tailwind css of verion 1.9.6
• All the unility class needed to create a TimeLine component
• 36 steps to create a TimeLine 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 TimeLine ui component

Time line

Why use Tailwind CSS to create a TimeLine ui component?

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

The preview of TimeLine ui component

The source code of TimeLine ui component

<div class="py-10 container mx-auto px-5">
       <!-- component -->
            <div class="relative">
                <div class="border-r-4 border-black absolute h-full top-0" style={{ 'left': '9px' }}></div>
                <ul class="list-none m-0 p-0">
                    <li class="mb-5  ">
                        <div class="flex group items-center ">
                            <div class="bg-gray-800 group-hover:bg-red-700 z-10 rounded-full border-4 border-black  h-5 w-5">
                                <div class="bg-black h-1 w-6 items-center  ml-4 mt-1"></div>
                            </div>
                            <div class="flex-1 ml-4 z-10 font-medium">
                                <div class="order-1 space-y-2 bg-gray-800 rounded-lg shadow-only transition-ease lg:w-5/12 px-6 py-4">
                                    <h3 class="mb-3 font-bold text-white text-2xl">Personal Portfolio April Fools</h3>
                                    <p class="pb-4 text-sm text-gray-100">University of DVI (1997 - 2001)</p>
                                    <hr />
                                    <p class="text-sm font-medium leading-snug tracking-wide text-gray-300 text-opacity-100">The education should be very interactual. Ut tincidunt est ac dolor aliquam sodales. Phasellus sed mauris hendrerit, laoreet sem in, lobortis mauris hendrerit ante.</p>
                                </div>
                            </div>
                        </div>
                    </li>
                    <li class="mb-5  ">
                        <div class="flex group items-center ">
                            <div class="bg-gray-800 group-hover:bg-red-700 z-10 rounded-full border-4 border-black  h-5 w-5">
                                <div class="bg-black h-1 w-6 items-center  ml-4 mt-1"></div>
                            </div>
                            <div class="flex-1 ml-4 z-10 font-medium">
                                <div class="order-1 space-y-2 bg-gray-800 rounded-lg shadow-only transition-ease lg:w-5/12 px-6 py-4">
                                    <h3 class="mb-3 font-bold text-white text-2xl">Personal Portfolio April Fools</h3>
                                    <p class="pb-4 text-sm text-gray-100">University of DVI (1997 - 2001)</p>
                                    <hr />
                                    <p class="text-sm font-medium leading-snug tracking-wide text-gray-300 text-opacity-100">The education should be very interactual. Ut tincidunt est ac dolor aliquam sodales. Phasellus sed mauris hendrerit, laoreet sem in, lobortis mauris hendrerit ante.</p>
                                </div>
                            </div>
                        </div>
                    </li>
                </ul>
            </div>
        </div>

How to create a TimeLine with Tailwind CSS?

Install tailwind css of verion 1.9.6

Use the link html tag to import the stylesheet of Tailwind CSS of the version 1.9.6

<link href=https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/tailwind.min.css rel="stylesheet">

All the unility class needed to create a TimeLine component

• py-10
• mx-auto
• px-5
• relative
• border-r-4
• border-black
• absolute
• h-full
• top-0
• m-0
• p-0
• mb-5
• flex
• bg-gray-800
• group-hover:bg-red-700
• z-10
• border-4
• h-5
• w-5
• bg-black
• h-1
• w-6
• ml-4
• mt-1
• flex-1
• lg:w-5/12
• px-6
• py-4
• mb-3
• text-white
• text-2xl
• pb-4
• text-sm
• text-gray-100
• text-gray-300
• text-opacity-100

36 steps to create a TimeLine component with Tailwind CSS

1. Control the vertical padding of an element to 2.5rem using the py-10 utilities.

2. Control the horizontal margin of an element to auto using the mx-auto utilities.

3. Control the horizontal padding of an element to 1.25rem using the px-5 utilities.

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. Use h-full to set an element’s height to 100% of its parent, as long as the parent has a defined height.

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

10. Control the margin on all sides of an element to 0rem using the m-0 utilities.

11. Control the padding on all sides of an element to 0rem using the p-0 utilities.

12. Control the margin on bottom side of an element to 1.25rem using the mb-5 utilities.

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

14. Control the background color of an element to gray-800 using the bg-gray-800 utilities.

15. Control the background color of an element to red-700 using the group-hover:bg-red-700 utilitiesundefined.

16. 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.

17. Control the border color of an element to 1rem using the border-4 utilities.

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

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

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

21. Use h-1 to set an element to a fixed height(0.25rem).

22. Use w-6 to set an element to a fixed width(1.5rem).

23. Control the margin on left side of an element to 1rem using the ml-4 utilities.

24. Control the margin on top side of an element to 0.25rem using the mt-1 utilities.

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

26. Use lg:w-5/12 to set an element to a fixed width(5/12) at only large screen sizes.

27. Control the horizontal padding of an element to 1.5rem using the px-6 utilities.

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

29. Control the margin on bottom side of an element to 0.75rem using the mb-3 utilities.

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

31. Control the text color of an element to 2xl using the text-2xl utilities.

32. Control the padding on bottom side of an element to 1rem using the pb-4 utilities.

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

34. Control the text color of an element to gray-100 using the text-gray-100 utilities.

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

36. Control the text color of an element to opacity-100 using the text-opacity-100 utilities.

Conclusion

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