Tailwind CSS

Tailwind CSS
Original author(s)Adam Wathan, Jonathan Reinink, David Hemphill, and Steve Schoger
Developer(s)Tailwind Labs[1]
Initial release13 May 2019; 5 years ago (2019-05-13)[2]
Stable release
3.4.14[3] Edit this on Wikidata / 15 October 2024
Repository
Written inTypeScript, Rust, CSS
PlatformWeb
Available inEnglish
LicenseMIT License[4]
Websitetailwindcss.com

Tailwind CSS is an open-source CSS framework. Unlike other frameworks, like Bootstrap, it does not provide a series of predefined classes for elements such as buttons or tables. Instead, it creates a list of "utility" CSS classes that can be used to style each element by mixing and matching.[5][6]

For example, in other traditional systems, there would be a class message-warning that would apply a yellow background color and bold text. To achieve this result in Tailwind, one would have to apply a set of classes created by the library: bg-yellow-300 and font-bold.

As of 5 August 2024, Tailwind CSS has over 81,000 stars on GitHub.[7]

  1. ^ "Tailwind Labs". GitHub.
  2. ^ Doe. "Release Notes: Tailwind CSS v1.0". Tailwind CSS. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
  3. ^ "Release 3.4.14". 15 October 2024. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
  4. ^ "Github: tailwindlabs/tailwindcss, LICENSE". GitHub.
  5. ^ Gerchev, Ivaylo (2022). Tailwind CSS. Sebastopol: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-1-0981-4099-1. OCLC 1314257318.
  6. ^ Rappin, Noel (2021). Modern CSS with Tailwind flexible styling without the fuss. Raleigh: The Pragmatic Bookshelf. ISBN 978-1-68050-857-4. OCLC 1277046918.
  7. ^ tailwindlabs/tailwindcss, Tailwind Labs, 17 April 2024, retrieved 17 April 2024