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Surprisingly Effective Ways To Create A Weather Widget With Tailwind CSS

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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 Widget ui component

Weather card whit aditional info

Why use Tailwind CSS to create a Weather Widget ui component?

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

The preview of Weather Widget ui component

Free download of the Weather Widget's source code

The source code of Weather Widget ui component

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  <div class="text-md font-bold flex flex-col text-gray-900"><span class="uppercase">Today</span> <span class="font-normal text-gray-700 text-sm">July 29</span></div>
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  <p class="text-gray-700 mb-2">Partly cloud</p>
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       100 l/m<sup>2</sup>
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      20 km/h
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How to create a Weather Widget with Tailwind CSS?

Install tailwind css of verion 1.2.0

Use the link html tag to import the stylesheet of Tailwind CSS of the version 1.2.0

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

All the unility class needed to create a Weather Widget component

  • w-64
  • flex
  • flex-col
  • text-center
  • p-6
  • bg-white
  • text-md
  • text-gray-900
  • text-gray-700
  • text-sm
  • w-32
  • h-32
  • h-20
  • mb-2
  • text-3xl
  • mb-6
  • mx-1
  • w-full
  • px-2
  • mr-2
  • h-4
  • w-4

22 steps to create a Weather Widget component with Tailwind CSS

  1. Use w-64 to set an element to a fixed width(16rem).

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

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

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

  5. Control the padding on all sides of an element to 1.5rem using the p-6 utilities.

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

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

  8. Control the text color of an element to gray-900 using the text-gray-900 utilities.

  9. Control the text color of an element to gray-700 using the text-gray-700 utilities.

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

  11. Use w-32 to set an element to a fixed width(8rem).

  12. Use h-32 to set an element to a fixed height(8rem).

  13. Use h-20 to set an element to a fixed height(5rem).

  14. Control the margin on bottom side of an element to 0.5rem using the mb-2 utilities.

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

  16. Control the margin on bottom side of an element to 1.5rem using the mb-6 utilities.

  17. Control the horizontal margin of an element to 0.25rem using the mx-1 utilities.

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

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

  20. Control the margin on right side of an element to 0.5rem using the mr-2 utilities.

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

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

Conclusion

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