Learn How To Create A Weather Card With Tailwind CSS Like an Expert

• What is Tailwind CSS?
• The description of Weather Card ui component
• Why use Tailwind CSS to build a Weather Card ui component?
• The preview of Weather Card ui component
• The source code of Weather Card ui component
• How to build a Weather Card with Tailwind CSS?
• Install tailwind css of verion 0.3.0
• All the unility class needed to build a Weather Card component
• 23 steps to build a Weather 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 Weather Card ui component

A card displaying weather of a city, min, current and max temperature in f. time.

Why use Tailwind CSS to build a Weather Card ui component?

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

The preview of Weather Card ui component

The source code of Weather Card ui component

<div class="container bg-grey-lightest mx-auto shadow rounded pb-4 bg-cover" style="color:#606F7B;background-color: rgb(165, 182, 198); background-image:url('https://68.media.tumblr.com/f6a4004f3092b0d664daeabb95d5d195/tumblr_oduyciOJNb1uhjffgo1_500.gif');">
        <div class="mt-2 p-4 border-b border-grey-light  text-center">
          <span class="text-4xl font-thin">Mountain View, US</span>
           <span class="hidden sm:inline-block align-bottom text-xs">( 94041 )</span>
        </div>
        <div class="text-center text-xl text-grey-light p-4">
          <span>Fog</span>
          <span>, fog</span>
        </div>
        <div class="flex justify-center">
          <div class="text-center p-2">
              <div class="text-lg text-grey-light">
                  <span class="text-right">45˚F</span>
                  <span class="text-center text-5xl text-white mx-6  font-thin">49˚F</span>
                  <span class="text-left">58˚F</span>
                </div>
              <div class="text-grey-light tracking-wide">
                Saturday | 30 Dec | 10:30pm
              </div>
            </div>
        </div>
      </div>

How to build a Weather Card 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 build a Weather Card component

• bg-grey-lightest
• mx-auto
• pb-4
• bg-cover
• mt-2
• p-4
• border-b
• border-grey-light
• text-center
• text-4xl
• hidden
• sm:inline-block
• text-xs
• text-xl
• text-grey-light
• flex
• p-2
• text-lg
• text-right
• text-5xl
• text-white
• mx-6
• text-left

23 steps to build a Weather Card component with Tailwind CSS

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

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

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

4. Control the background color of an element to cover using the bg-cover utilities.

5. Control the margin on top side of an element to 0.5rem using the mt-2 utilities.

6. Control the padding on all sides of an element to 1rem using the p-4 utilities.

7. Control the border color of an element to b using the border-b utilities.

8. Control the border color of an element to grey-light using the border-grey-light utilities.

9. Control the text color of an element to center using the text-center utilities.

10. Control the text color of an element to 4xl using the text-4xl utilities.

11. Use hidden to set an element to display: none and remove it from the page layout.

12. Use inline-block utilities to wrap the element to prevent the text inside from extending beyond its parent at only small screen sizes.

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

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

15. Control the text color of an element to grey-light using the text-grey-light utilities.

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

17. Control the padding on all sides of an element to 0.5rem using the p-2 utilities.

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

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

20. Control the text color of an element to 5xl using the text-5xl utilities.

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

22. Control the horizontal margin of an element to 1.5rem using the mx-6 utilities.

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

Conclusion

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