Modern CSS with Tailwind

Gain insights into industry best practices for designing web pages with Tailwind CSS. Explore typography, box models, and master layouts using flexbox and grids effectively.

Intermediate

58 Lessons

26h

Certificate of Completion

Gain insights into industry best practices for designing web pages with Tailwind CSS. Explore typography, box models, and master layouts using flexbox and grids effectively.

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This course includes

61 Playgrounds

7 Quizzes

This course includes

61 Playgrounds

7 Quizzes

Course Overview

This course examines and explains industry best practices to design web pages using Tailwind CSS. We’ll start with the typography of individual elements, and then we’ll get to “the box”—the rectangle of space each element takes up on a web page and how to manipulate it. Once we have our elements in boxes, we’ll take a look at the page layout using flexbox and grids.

What You'll Learn

Build contemporary websites quickly and easily without ever leaving your HTML.

How to design web pages using Tailwind CSS.

Play with Tailwind and learn how to answer interview level questions.

Build your own go-to Tailwind project and learn it's basics.

What You'll Learn

Build contemporary websites quickly and easily without ever leaving your HTML.

Course Content

Introduction

Get familiar with Tailwind CSS, its utility-first framework, and practical website design.

Why Tailwind

About This Course

Getting Started with Tailwind

Look at creating and enhancing webpage styles using Tailwind CSS utility classes.

Quick Start

Add Tailwind Features

Quiz Yourself on Tailwind

Tailwind Basics

Examine Tailwind's utility-first CSS framework, classes, Preflight reset, handling duplication, @apply, and prefixes.

Using @apply for Duplication

Prefixes

Retro Designs: Introduction

Quiz Yourself on Tailwind Basics

Typography

Apply your skills to enhancing text size, color, alignment, and forms in Tailwind CSS.

Size and Shape

Color and Opacity

Alignment and Spacing

Tailwind Forms

Retro Designs: Font Styling

The Box

Take a closer look at Tailwind's control over the box model, spacing, borders, and backgrounds.

Box

Retro Designs: The Box

Quiz Yourself on Typography and Box

Page Layout

9 Lessons

Investigate comprehensive tools in Tailwind CSS for layout management, grids, flexbox, and alignment.

Animation

4 Lessons

Piece together the parts of Tailwind CSS animations, transitions, transformations, and dynamic element designs.

Responsive Design

4 Lessons

Get familiar with creating responsive designs using Tailwind's breakpoints, hiding elements, and flexbox layout.

Customizing Tailwind

10 Lessons

Get started with customizing Tailwind's configuration, including screens, colors, spacing, and optimizing CSS.

10.

Conclusion

2 Lessons

Work your way through Tailwind CSS integration and apply skills across diverse environments.

11.

Appendix

2 Lessons

Apply your skills to installing Tailwind and enhancing text legibility with the typography plug-in.

Course Author

Trusted by 1.4 million developers working at companies

Anthony Walker

@_webarchitect_

Evan Dunbar

ML Engineer

Carlos Matias La Borde

Software Developer

Souvik Kundu

Front-end Developer

Vinay Krishnaiah

Software Developer

Eric Downs

Musician/Entrepeneur

Kenan Eyvazov

DevOps Engineer

Souvik Kundu

Front-end Developer

Eric Downs

Musician/Entrepeneur

Anthony Walker

@_webarchitect_

Evan Dunbar

ML Engineer

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