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Learning TailwindCSS As If You Built It Yourself

DEV Community·Mohamed Idris·20 days ago
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If you have ever opened a year old CSS file and tried to figure out which class does what, you remember the feeling. card-2 , card-2-blue , card-2-blue-mobile , card-2-blue-mobile-final , all in different files, all targeting the same component, all "almost" doing the same thing. Renaming any of them is risky. Deleting any of them is scarier. So nobody does, and the file grows forever. That graveyard of dead classes is what Tailwind was invented to prevent. What is TailwindCSS, really Think of Tailwind as a tool belt of pre cut Lego bricks for styling . Instead of inventing class names like card-header-title-medium-blue and writing CSS for them, you snap together a handful of small, single purpose classes right in your HTML: <div class= "rounded-lg bg-white p-6 shadow" > <h2 class= "text-xl font-semibold text-slate-900" > Mochi </h2> <p class= "mt-2 text-slate-600" > A small white cat with big plans.…

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