Applying a Style to Child Elements with Tailwind CSS

Sometimes, when working with Tailwind CSS, you may come across a situation where you need to apply a style to a child element. In this blog post, we will explore how to achieve this easily and effectively. To apply a specific class, like bg-gray-300, to all child elements of the current element, you can use the following class name: [&>\*]:bg-gray-300 To implement this in your HTML code, simply add the class to the parent element:...

How to Add Tailwind to Hugo: A Step-by-Step Guide

If you’re using Hugo for your website and want to enhance its styling capabilities, integrating Tailwind CSS can be a great choice. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process of adding Tailwind to Hugo. Here’s how you can get started: Step 1: Set up Tailwind CSS Inside your theme folder, open a terminal window and run the following command to initialize npm: npm init -y Next, install Tailwind CSS as a development dependency by running this command:...

How to Fix the \"Unknown At Rule @tailwindcss\" Warning in VS Code

Problem: When you include Tailwind in your project, you might encounter the warning message “Unknown at rule @tailwindcss(unknownAtRules)” in VS Code. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to resolve this issue: Open the settings in VS Code. Search for “unknown” within the settings. The first result should be “CSS > Lint: Unknown At Rules”. Change the setting value from its default configuration to “ignore”. Save the changes. Once you have made this adjustment, the warning message should no longer appear in your VS Code editor....

How to Set Up Tailwind with PurgeCSS and PostCSS

In this blog post, I will explain how to set up your workflow to trim the Tailwind CSS using PurgeCSS and a simple PostCSS setup. This setup does not involve webpack and can be used with any kind of project. To start, you need to install Tailwind using npm or yarn: npm init -y npm install tailwindcss Next, create a configuration file by running this command: npx tailwind init This will create a tailwind....

How to Use Custom Fonts with Tailwind CSS

If you’re using Tailwind CSS in your app, you may want to use custom fonts to enhance the visual appeal of your website. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to incorporate custom fonts into your Tailwind CSS project. First, assuming that you have already configured your app to use Tailwind CSS, you will have a CSS file that contains the following code: @tailwind base; @tailwind components; @tailwind utilities; To begin, navigate to Google Fonts (or any other font provider of your choice) and select the font you’d like to use....

New Website and Redesign: Improving Developer Experience and Content Creation

A few days ago, I had a brilliant idea of migrating my website, flaviocopes.com, from Hugo to Astro. In just one day, I successfully accomplished the transition with a fresh new theme design. In this blog post, I will share the entire process and decision-making behind this change, as it may prove useful to you. For those unfamiliar with Astro, it is a fantastic site-building tool that I have been using for many of my latest website projects....

Using Tailwind CSS with Laravel: A Step-by-Step Guide

This tutorial is part of the Laravel Handbook. Download it from here One powerful way to enhance the styling of your Laravel applications is by using Tailwind CSS. In this guide, we will walk you through the process of setting up and configuring Tailwind CSS with Laravel. Let’s get started: Step 1: Configuring Vite The first thing we need to do is configure Vite to enable styling with Tailwind CSS....

Using Tailwind with Vue.js - A Step-by-Step Guide

In this article, we will walk through the process of setting up Tailwind CSS in a Vue CLI 3 project. Tailwind CSS is a powerful and customizable CSS framework that allows you to build modern and responsive web applications. Install Tailwind The first step is to install Tailwind CSS using either npm or yarn. Run the following command in your project directory: npm install tailwindcss --save-dev yarn add tailwindcss --dev Create a configuration file Once Tailwind CSS is installed, you need to create a configuration file....