tailwindcss-development

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Styles applications using Tailwind CSS v4 utilities. Activates when adding styles, restyling components, working with gradients, spacing, layout, flex, grid, responsive design, dark mode, colors, typography, or borders; or when the user mentions CSS, styling, classes, Tailwind, restyle, hero section, cards, buttons, or any visual/UI changes.

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Tailwind CSS Development

When to Apply

Activate this skill when:
  • Adding styles to components or pages
  • Working with responsive design
  • Implementing dark mode
  • Extracting repeated patterns into components
  • Debugging spacing or layout issues

Documentation

Use 
search-docs
for detailed Tailwind CSS v4 patterns and documentation.

Basic Usage

  • Use Tailwind CSS classes to style HTML. Check and follow existing Tailwind conventions in the project before introducing new patterns.
  • Offer to extract repeated patterns into components that match the project's conventions (e.g., Blade, JSX, Vue).
  • Consider class placement, order, priority, and defaults. Remove redundant classes, add classes to parent or child elements carefully to reduce repetition, and group elements logically.

Tailwind CSS v4 Specifics

  • Always use Tailwind CSS v4 and avoid deprecated utilities.
  • corePlugins
    is not supported in Tailwind v4.

CSS-First Configuration

In Tailwind v4, configuration is CSS-first using the 
@theme
directive — no separate 
tailwind.config.js
file is needed:
<code-snippet name="CSS-First Config" lang="css"> @theme { --color-brand: oklch(0.72 0.11 178); } </code-snippet>

Import Syntax

In Tailwind v4, import Tailwind with a regular CSS 
@import
statement instead of the 
@tailwind
directives used in v3:
<code-snippet name="v4 Import Syntax" lang="diff"> - @tailwind base; - @tailwind components; - @tailwind utilities; + @import "tailwindcss"; </code-snippet>

Replaced Utilities

Tailwind v4 removed deprecated utilities. Use the replacements shown below. Opacity values remain numeric.
DeprecatedReplacement
bg-opacity-*bg-black/*
text-opacity-*text-black/*
border-opacity-*border-black/*
divide-opacity-*divide-black/*
ring-opacity-*ring-black/*
placeholder-opacity-*placeholder-black/*
flex-shrink-*shrink-*
flex-grow-*grow-*
overflow-ellipsistext-ellipsis
decoration-slicebox-decoration-slice
decoration-clonebox-decoration-clone

Spacing

Use 
gap
utilities instead of margins for spacing between siblings:
<code-snippet name="Gap Utilities" lang="html"> <div class="flex gap-8"> <div>Item 1</div> <div>Item 2</div> </div> </code-snippet>

Dark Mode

If existing pages and components support dark mode, new pages and components must support it the same way, typically using the 
dark:
variant:
<code-snippet name="Dark Mode" lang="html"> <div class="bg-white dark:bg-gray-900 text-gray-900 dark:text-white"> Content adapts to color scheme </div> </code-snippet>

Common Patterns

Flexbox Layout

<code-snippet name="Flexbox Layout" lang="html"> <div class="flex items-center justify-between gap-4"> <div>Left content</div> <div>Right content</div> </div> </code-snippet>

Grid Layout

<code-snippet name="Grid Layout" lang="html"> <div class="grid grid-cols-1 md:grid-cols-2 lg:grid-cols-3 gap-6"> <div>Card 1</div> <div>Card 2</div> <div>Card 3</div> </div> </code-snippet>

Common Pitfalls

  • Using deprecated v3 utilities (bg-opacity-, flex-shrink-, etc.)
  • Using 
    @tailwind
    directives instead of 
    @import "tailwindcss"
  • Trying to use 
    tailwind.config.js
    instead of CSS 
    @theme
    directive
  • Using margins for spacing between siblings instead of gap utilities
  • Forgetting to add dark mode variants when the project uses dark mode