Ultimate Guide: Make A Traditional alert With Tailwind CSS

• What is Tailwind CSS?
• The description of Traditional alert ui component
• Why use Tailwind CSS to create a Traditional alert ui component?
• The preview of Traditional alert ui component
• The source code of Traditional alert ui component
• How to create a Traditional alert with Tailwind CSS?
• Install tailwind css of verion 0.3.0
• All the unility class needed to create a Traditional alert component
• 14 steps to create a Traditional alert 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 Traditional alert ui component

An alert from tailwind docs

Why use Tailwind CSS to create a Traditional alert ui component?

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

The preview of Traditional alert ui component

The source code of Traditional alert ui component

<div class="bg-red-lightest border border-red-light text-red-dark pl-4 pr-8 py-3 rounded relative" role="alert">
  <strong class="font-bold">Brbrbr!</strong>
  <span class="block sm:inline">Something seriously went wrong.</span>
  <span class="absolute pin-t pin-b pin-r pr-2 py-3">
    <svg class="h-6 w-6 text-red" role="button" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 20 20"><title>Close</title><path d="M14.348 14.849a1.2 1.2 0 0 1-1.697 0L10 11.819l-2.651 3.029a1.2 1.2 0 1 1-1.697-1.697l2.758-3.15-2.759-3.152a1.2 1.2 0 1 1 1.697-1.697L10 8.183l2.651-3.031a1.2 1.2 0 1 1 1.697 1.697l-2.758 3.152 2.758 3.15a1.2 1.2 0 0 1 0 1.698z"/></svg>
  </span>
</div>

How to create a Traditional alert with Tailwind CSS?

Install tailwind css of verion 0.3.0

Use the link html tag to import the stylesheet of Tailwind CSS of the version 0.3.0

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

All the unility class needed to create a Traditional alert component

• bg-red-lightest
• border-red-light
• text-red-dark
• pl-4
• pr-8
• py-3
• relative
• block
• sm:inline
• absolute
• pr-2
• h-6
• w-6
• text-red

14 steps to create a Traditional alert component with Tailwind CSS

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

2. Control the border color of an element to red-light using the border-red-light utilities.

3. Control the text color of an element to red-dark using the text-red-dark utilities.

4. Set the left padding of an element to 1rem using the pl-4 utilities class

5. Control the padding on right side of an element to 2rem using the pr-8 utilities.

6. Control the vertical padding of an element to 0.75rem using the py-3 utilities.

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

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

9. Use inline utilities to control the flow of text inside the element to wrap normally at only small screen sizes.

10. 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.

11. Control the padding on right side of an element to 0.5rem using the pr-2 utilities.

12. Use h-6 to set an element to a fixed height(1.5rem).

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

14. Control the text color of an element to red using the text-red utilities.

Conclusion

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