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How To Create A Twitch - Categories With Tailwind CSS From Scratch

Twitch - Categories

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 Twitch - Categories ui component

Twitch - categories

Why use Tailwind CSS to create a Twitch - Categories ui component?

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

The preview of Twitch - Categories ui component

Free download of the Twitch - Categories's source code

The source code of Twitch - Categories ui component

<div class="h-screen bg-black flex items-center justify-center">

  <div class="grid grid-cols-6 gap-2 px-16">

    <!-- Item 1 -->
    <div class="flex flex-col gap-1">

      <!-- Image -->
      <a href="" class="bg-purple-500">
        <img src="https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/ttv-boxart/516575-285x380.jpg" class="hover:translate-x-1 hover:-translate-y-1 delay-50 duration-100" />
      </a>

      <!-- Games Title -->
      <a href="#" class="hover:text-purple-500 text-gray-200 font-semibold"> VALORANT </a>

      <!-- Viewers -->
      <a href="#" class="hover:text-purple-500 text-sm text-gray-400 -mt-1"> 78.4K viewers </a>

      <!-- Category Tags -->
      <div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap gap-2">
        <a href="#" class="hover:bg-gray-600 text-gray-300 text-xs font-semibold bg-gray-700 px-2 py-1 rounded-full"> Shooter </a>
        <a href="#" class="hover:bg-gray-600 text-gray-300 text-xs font-semibold bg-gray-700 px-2 py-1 rounded-full"> FPS </a>
      </div>      

    </div>

    <!-- Item 2 -->
    <div class="flex flex-col gap-1">

      <!-- Image -->
      <a href="" class="bg-purple-500">
        <img src="https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/ttv-boxart/509658-285x380.jpg" class="hover:translate-x-1 hover:-translate-y-1 delay-50 duration-100" />
      </a>

      <!-- Games Title -->
      <a href="#" class="hover:text-purple-500 text-gray-200 font-semibold"> Just Chatting </a>

      <!-- Viewers -->
      <a href="#" class="hover:text-purple-500 text-sm text-gray-400 -mt-1"> 236K viewers </a>

      <!-- Category Tags -->
      <div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap gap-2">
        <a href="#" class="hover:bg-gray-600 text-gray-300 text-xs font-semibold bg-gray-700 px-2 py-1 rounded-full"> IRL </a>
      </div>      

    </div>

    <!-- Item 3 -->
    <div class="flex flex-col gap-1">

      <!-- Image -->
      <a href="" class="bg-purple-500">
        <img src="https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/ttv-boxart/512953_IGDB-285x380.jpg" class="hover:translate-x-1 hover:-translate-y-1 delay-50 duration-100" />
      </a>

      <!-- Games Title -->
      <a href="#" class="hover:text-purple-500 text-gray-200 font-semibold"> Elden Ring </a>

      <!-- Viewers -->
      <a href="#" class="hover:text-purple-500 text-sm text-gray-400 -mt-1"> 350K viewers </a>

      <!-- Category Tags -->
      <div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap gap-2">
        <a href="#" class="hover:bg-gray-600 text-gray-300 text-xs font-semibold bg-gray-700 px-2 py-1 rounded-full"> RPG </a>
        <a href="#" class="hover:bg-gray-600 text-gray-300 text-xs font-semibold bg-gray-700 px-2 py-1 rounded-full"> Action </a>
      </div>      

    </div>

    <!-- Item 4 -->
    <div class="flex flex-col gap-1">

      <!-- Image -->
      <a href="" class="bg-purple-500">
        <img src="https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/ttv-boxart/511224-285x380.jpg" class="hover:translate-x-1 hover:-translate-y-1 delay-50 duration-100" />
      </a>

      <!-- Games Title -->
      <a href="#" class="hover:text-purple-500 text-gray-200 font-semibold"> Apex Legends </a>

      <!-- Viewers -->
      <a href="#" class="hover:text-purple-500 text-sm text-gray-400 -mt-1"> 89.7K viewers </a>

      <!-- Category Tags -->
      <div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap gap-2">
        <a href="#" class="hover:bg-gray-600 text-gray-300 text-xs font-semibold bg-gray-700 px-2 py-1 rounded-full"> FPS </a>
        <a href="#" class="hover:bg-gray-600 text-gray-300 text-xs font-semibold bg-gray-700 px-2 py-1 rounded-full"> Shooter </a>
      </div>      

    </div>

    <!-- Item 5 -->
    <div class="flex flex-col gap-1">

      <!-- Image -->
      <a href="" class="bg-purple-500">
        <img src="https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/ttv-boxart/513181-285x380.jpg" class="hover:translate-x-1 hover:-translate-y-1 delay-50 duration-100" />
      </a>

      <!-- Games Title -->
      <a href="#" class="hover:text-purple-500 text-gray-200 font-semibold"> Genshin Impact </a>

      <!-- Viewers -->
      <a href="#" class="hover:text-purple-500 text-sm text-gray-400 -mt-1"> 9K viewers </a>

      <!-- Category Tags -->
      <div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap gap-2">
        <a href="#" class="hover:bg-gray-600 text-gray-300 text-xs font-semibold bg-gray-700 px-2 py-1 rounded-full"> Action </a>
        <a href="#" class="hover:bg-gray-600 text-gray-300 text-xs font-semibold bg-gray-700 px-2 py-1 rounded-full"> RPG </a>
      </div>      

    </div>

    <!-- Item 6 -->
    <div class="flex flex-col gap-1">

      <!-- Image -->
      <a href="" class="bg-purple-500">
        <img src="https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/ttv-boxart/490100-285x380.jpg" class="hover:translate-x-1 hover:-translate-y-1 delay-50 duration-100" />
      </a>

      <!-- Games Title -->
      <a href="#" class="hover:text-purple-500 text-gray-200 font-semibold"> Lost Ark </a>

      <!-- Viewers -->
      <a href="#" class="hover:text-purple-500 text-sm text-gray-400 -mt-1"> 199K viewers </a>

      <!-- Category Tags -->
      <div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap gap-2">
        <a href="#" class="hover:bg-gray-600 text-gray-300 text-xs font-semibold bg-gray-700 px-2 py-1 rounded-full"> RPG </a>
        <a href="#" class="hover:bg-gray-600 text-gray-300 text-xs font-semibold bg-gray-700 px-2 py-1 rounded-full"> Action </a>
        <a href="#" class="hover:bg-gray-600 text-gray-300 text-xs font-semibold bg-gray-700 px-2 py-1 rounded-full"> MMO </a>
      </div>      

    </div>

  </div>
  
</div>

How to create a Twitch - Categories 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 create a Twitch - Categories component

  • h-screen
  • bg-black
  • flex
  • grid
  • grid-cols-6
  • gap-2
  • px-16
  • flex-col
  • gap-1
  • bg-purple-500
  • hover:text-purple-500
  • text-gray-200
  • text-sm
  • text-gray-400
  • -mt-1
  • flex-row
  • flex-wrap
  • hover:bg-gray-600
  • text-gray-300
  • text-xs
  • bg-gray-700
  • px-2
  • py-1

23 steps to create a Twitch - Categories component with Tailwind CSS

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

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

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

  4. Use grid to create a grid container.

  5. Use grid to create a grid container.

  6. To specify the width between columns, you can use the gap-2 utilities.

  7. Control the horizontal padding of an element to 4rem using the px-16 utilities.

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

  9. To specify the width between columns, you can use the gap-1 utilities.

  10. Control the background color of an element to purple-500 using the bg-purple-500 utilities.

  11. Control the text color of an element to purple-500 on hover using the hover:text-purple-500 utilities.

  12. Control the text color of an element to gray-200 using the text-gray-200 utilities.

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

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

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

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

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

  18. Control the background color of an element to gray-600 using the hover:bg-gray-600 utilities on hover.

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

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

  21. Control the background color of an element to gray-700 using the bg-gray-700 utilities.

  22. Control the horizontal padding of an element to 0.5rem using the px-2 utilities.

  23. Control the vertical padding of an element to 0.25rem using the py-1 utilities.

Conclusion

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