Tailwind CSS is a popular utility-first CSS framework that allows developers to easily create custom designs by using a set of pre-defined utility classes. One of the most common and useful components that can be built using Tailwind CSS is the card component.
Card setup
A card component is a flexible and customizable container that can be used to display a variety of content, such as images, text, and buttons. In this blog post, we will walk through the process of building a simple card component using Tailwind CSS utility classes.
First, you will need to include the Tailwind CSS stylesheet in your project. You can do this by downloading the stylesheet from the official website, or by using a package manager such as npm or yarn to install Tailwind CSS.
Once you have included the Tailwind CSS stylesheet in your project, you can start building the card component by adding the appropriate HTML elements and classes.
Here is an example of a basic card component:
<div class="bg-white p-6 rounded-lg shadow-md">
<img src="image.jpg" class="w-full h-32 object-cover rounded-md" alt="...">
<div class="mt-4">
<h5 class="text-lg font-medium text-gray-900">Card title</h5>
<p class="text-gray-700">Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.</p>
<a href="#" class="mt-4 bg-blue-500 text-white px-4 py-2 rounded-md hover:bg-blue-600">Go somewhere</a>
</div>
</div>In this example, the bg-white class is used to set the background color of the card to white, the p-6 class is used to add padding to the card, the rounded-lg class is used to add a rounded border to the card, and the shadow-md class is used to add a medium shadow to the card.
The image is set to take the full width and height of the card container with the class w-full h-32 and to cover the entire container object-cover. The rounded-md class is used to add a rounded border to the image.
For the text, the text-lg class is used to set the text size to large, the font-medium class is used to set the font weight to medium, the text-gray-900 class is used to set the text color to dark gray, and the text-gray-700 class is used to set the text color to gray.
The button is customized with the class bg-blue-500 text-white px-4 py-2 rounded-md hover:bg-blue-600 which change the background color to blue, the text color to white, add padding and rounded border to the button and change the background color on hover.
In conclusion, building a card component using Tailwind CSS utility classes is a simple and easy process that requires a minimal amount of additional CSS classes. Out of the box, Tailwind CSS gives you all the utility classes required to quickly build a card component in your HTML. That said, if you are not a fan of using too many utility classes, or you require the card component in multiple places in your project source code, then you can easily follow the Bootstrap CSS class naming convention, setup a CSS class called ".card" and move all the Tailwind utilities to your CSS file using Tailwind's "@apply" functionality.