Tailwind CSS Layout Complete Reference

Last Updated : 03 Aug, 2023

Tailwind CSS is basically a utility first CSS framework for rapid custom UI. it is a highly customizable, low-level CSS framework that gives you all of the buildings blocks that you need. As we know there are many CSS frameworks but people always choose the fast and easy framework to learn and use in the project. we can make the layout of a very quickly nice page using Tailwind CSS layout.

Tailwind CSS Class	Description	Example
Container	It fix the max-width of an element to match the min-width of the breakpoint.	Try
Box Sizing	It defines how the user should calculate the total width and height of an element.	Try
Display	It defines how the components (div, hyperlink, heading, etc) are going to be placed on the web page.	Try
Float	It defines the flow of content for controlling the wrapping of content around an element.	Try
Clear	It is used to specify which side of floating elements are not allowed to float.	Try
Object Fit	It specifies how an image or video should be resized to fit its content box.	Try
Object Position	It specifies how an image or video element is positioned with x/y coordinates.	Try
Overflow	It tells whether to clip content or to add scroll bars.	Try
overscroll Behavior	It sets the behavior of the browser when the boundary of a scrolling area is reached.	Try
Position	It is used for controlling how an element is positioned in the DOM.	Try
Top/Right/Bottom/Left	These classes are used to control the alignment of a positioned element.	Try
Visibility	It is used to specify whether an element is visible or not.	Try
Z-index	It describes the z-index along the three-dimensional plane.	Try

Below example will give you a brief idea about the Layout of Tailwind CSS:

Example:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<head>     
    <link href= 
"https://unpkg.com/tailwindcss@^1.0/dist/tailwind.min.css"
        rel="stylesheet"> 
</head> 
  
<body class="text-center"> 
<center> 
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    <div class="mx-10"> 
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    </div> 
  
</center> 
</body> 
  
</html> 