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Imagine You Make A Video Player With Tailwind CSS Like An Expert. Follow These 6 Steps To Get There

Video Player

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 Video Player ui component

Ui for a simple custom controls video player

Why use Tailwind CSS to make a Video Player ui component?

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

The preview of Video Player ui component

Free download of the Video Player's source code

The source code of Video Player ui component

<!-- This is an example component -->
<div>
    <div class='flex max-w-sm w-full bg-white shadow-md rounded-lg overflow-hidden mx-auto'>
        <div class="flex flex-col m-5 ">
            <div class="relative">
<video class="w-screen ">
			<source class="w-30 h-30" src='https://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.mp4' type='video/mp4'>
		
        </video>
         <div class="absolute bottom-0 w-full bg-gradient-to-r from-black">
            <span class="text-white text-xs uppercase px-2">
                red
            </span>
        </div>
            </div>
        <div>
            <div>
      <div class="relative h-1 bg-gray-200">
        <div class="absolute h-full w-1/2 bg-green-500 flex items-center justify-end">
          <div class="rounded-full w-3 h-3 bg-white shadow"></div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="flex justify-between text-xs font-medium text-gray-500 py-1">
      <div>
        1:50
      </div>
      <div class="flex space-x-3 pt-5">
        <button class="focus:outline-none">
          <svg class="w-4 h-4" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="#10b981" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><polygon points="19 20 9 12 19 4 19 20"></polygon><line x1="5" y1="19" x2="5" y2="5"></line></svg>
        </button>
        <button class="rounded-full w-8 h-8 flex items-center justify-center pl-0.5 ring-2 ring-green-500 focus:outline-none">
          <svg class="w-5 h-5" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="#10b981" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><polygon points="5 3 19 12 5 21 5 3"></polygon></svg>
        </button>
        <button class="focus:outline-none">
          <svg class="w-4 h-4" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="#10b981" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><polygon points="5 4 15 12 5 20 5 4"></polygon><line x1="19" y1="5" x2="19" y2="19"></line></svg>
        </button>
      </div>
      <div>
        3:00
      </div>
    </div>
        </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

How to make a Video Player with Tailwind CSS?

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>

All the unility class needed to make a Video Player component

  • flex
  • flex-col
  • m-5
  • relative
  • w-screen
  • w-30
  • h-30
  • absolute
  • bottom-0
  • w-full
  • bg-gradient-to-r
  • text-white
  • text-xs
  • px-2
  • h-1
  • bg-gray-200
  • h-full
  • w-1/2
  • bg-green-500
  • w-3
  • h-3
  • bg-white
  • text-gray-500
  • py-1
  • pt-5
  • w-4
  • h-4
  • w-8
  • h-8
  • pl-0.5
  • w-5
  • h-5

32 steps to make a Video Player component with Tailwind CSS

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

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

  3. Control the margin on all sides of an element to 1.25rem using the m-5 utilities.

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

  5. Use w-screen to make an element span the entire width of the viewport.

  6. Use w-30 to set an element to a fixed width(7.5rem).

  7. Use h-30 to set an element to a fixed height(7.5rem).

  8. 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.

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

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

  11. Control the background color of an element to gradient-to-r using the bg-gradient-to-r utilities.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  18. Use w-1/2 to set an element to a fixed width(1/2).

  19. Control the background color of an element to green-500 using the bg-green-500 utilities.

  20. Use w-3 to set an element to a fixed width(0.75rem).

  21. Use h-3 to set an element to a fixed height(0.75rem).

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

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

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

  25. Control the padding on top side of an element to 1.25rem using the pt-5 utilities.

  26. Use w-4 to set an element to a fixed width(1rem).

  27. Use h-4 to set an element to a fixed height(1rem).

  28. Use w-8 to set an element to a fixed width(2rem).

  29. Use h-8 to set an element to a fixed height(2rem).

  30. Adjust the left padding of an element to 0.5 using the pl-0.5 utilities class

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

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

Conclusion

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