3 Things You Must Know To Build A Twitter Card With Tailwind CSS

• What is Tailwind CSS?
• The description of Twitter Card ui component
• Why use Tailwind CSS to create a Twitter Card ui component?
• The preview of Twitter Card ui component
• The source code of Twitter Card ui component
• How to create a Twitter Card with Tailwind CSS?
• Install tailwind css of verion 1.7.0
• All the unility class needed to create a Twitter Card component
• 34 steps to create a Twitter Card 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 Twitter Card ui component

Just a simple tweet 🐦

Why use Tailwind CSS to create a Twitter Card ui component?

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

The preview of Twitter Card ui component

The source code of Twitter Card ui component

<style>
@import url(https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/MaterialDesign-Webfont/5.3.45/css/materialdesignicons.min.css);
</style>
<div class="min-w-screen min-h-screen bg-gray-200 flex items-center justify-center px-5 py-5">
    <div class="w-full mx-auto rounded-lg bg-white shadow p-5 text-gray-800" style="max-width: 400px">
        <div class="w-full flex mb-4">
            <div class="overflow-hidden rounded-full w-12 h-12">
                <img src="https://uifaces.co/our-content/donated/1H_7AxP0.jpg" alt="">
            </div>
            <div class="flex-grow pl-3">
                <h6 class="font-bold text-md">Joe Blow</h6>
                <p class="text-xs text-gray-600">@joe.blow</p>
            </div>
            <div class="w-12 text-right">
                <i class="mdi mdi-twitter text-blue-400 text-3xl"></i>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div class="w-full mb-4">
            <p class="text-sm">Lorem, ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Nam obcaecati laudantium recusandae, debitis eum voluptatem ad, illo voluptatibus temporibus odio provident. Laboriosam accusamus necessitatibus tenetur praesentium ullam voluptates nulla reprehenderit? 🤣</p>
        </div>
        <div class="w-full">
            <p class="text-xs text-gray-500 text-right">Oct 15th 8:33pm</p>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

<!-- BUY ME A BEER AND HELP SUPPORT OPEN-SOURCE RESOURCES -->
<div class="flex items-end justify-end fixed bottom-0 right-0 mb-4 mr-4 z-10">
    <div>
        <a title="Buy me a beer" href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottwindon" target="_blank" class="block w-16 h-16 rounded-full transition-all shadow hover:shadow-lg transform hover:scale-110 hover:rotate-12">
            <img class="object-cover object-center w-full h-full rounded-full" src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/60/fd/e8/60fde811b6be57094e0abc69d9c2622a.jpg"/>
        </a>
    </div>
</div>

How to create a Twitter Card with Tailwind CSS?

Install tailwind css of verion 1.7.0

Use the link html tag to import the stylesheet of Tailwind CSS of the version 1.7.0

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

All the unility class needed to create a Twitter Card component

• min-w-screen
• min-h-screen
• bg-gray-200
• flex
• px-5
• py-5
• w-full
• mx-auto
• bg-white
• p-5
• text-gray-800
• mb-4
• overflow-hidden
• w-12
• h-12
• flex-grow
• pl-3
• text-md
• text-xs
• text-gray-600
• text-right
• text-blue-400
• text-3xl
• text-sm
• text-gray-500
• fixed
• bottom-0
• right-0
• mr-4
• z-10
• block
• w-16
• h-16
• h-full

34 steps to create a Twitter Card component with Tailwind CSS

1. Set the minimum width/height of an element using the min-w-screen utilities.

2. Set the minimum width/height of an element using the min-h-screen utilities.

3. Control the background color of an element to gray-200 using the bg-gray-200 utilities.

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

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

6. Control the vertical padding of an element to 1.25rem using the py-5 utilities.

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

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

9. Control the background color of an element to white using the bg-white utilities.

10. Control the padding on all sides of an element to 1.25rem using the p-5 utilities.

11. Control the text color of an element to gray-800 using the text-gray-800 utilities.

12. Control the margin on bottom side of an element to 1rem using the mb-4 utilities.

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

14. Use w-12 to set an element to a fixed width(3rem).

15. Use h-12 to set an element to a fixed height(3rem).

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

17. Set the left padding of the element to 0.75rem using the pl-3 utilities class

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

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

20. Control the text color of an element to gray-600 using the text-gray-600 utilities.

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

22. Control the text color of an element to blue-400 using the text-blue-400 utilities.

23. Control the text color of an element to 3xl using the text-3xl utilities.

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

25. Control the text color of an element to gray-500 using the text-gray-500 utilities.

26. Use fixed to position an element relative to the browser window.

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

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

29. Control the margin on right side of an element to 1rem using the mr-4 utilities.

30. 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.

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

32. Use w-16 to set an element to a fixed width(4rem).

33. Use h-16 to set an element to a fixed height(4rem).

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

Conclusion

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