Styling Forms with Tailwind CSS

In this video, we look at how to style form elements in Tailwind CSS using utility classes, and how the official `@tailwindcss/forms` plugin even make it possible to easily customize select menu, radio buttons, and checkboxes.
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[@ivan_off]

I love this framework better than bootstrap now especially because you can customize the states of an element directly by writing the classes - so useful! And big thank you for this awesome video, forms are usually not the easiest to style.

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[@fyardlest1]

Really like the form thanks a lot! One of the best thing that seems a little bit difficult to do with Tailwind CSS is stepper, (checkout steps). Hope to find tutorials out there to do so, one day.

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Hi Simon, thank you so much for giving us a great tutorial. 15:45 is the magic moment that blew my mind! Thank you!!!

[@ZynthProductions]

i always created a custom style for my form i dont even know there is a form plugins lol i miss it on the docs thankyou for this awesome tutorial!

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Thank you very much for this wonderful video ❤

[@normankamper-leymann1191]

Thanks for the great video. Having customForms in the tailwind config v1 was much nicer though. I hope they add the possibility to easily define defaults in the tailwind config for v2 forms back.

[@fm_abid]

man, I loved this. was looking or something like this from Tailwind. Great, keep going

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[@henkhavenga570]

Thank you for demonstrating this. I've been battling to style the select element. Now I know. One question though: how did you style the actual dropdown list? Mine still has a white background with blue highlight. How can I style the appearance of the dropdown list?

[@arubin1978]

Nice done, thanks for the video? Does it support RTL? For example direction of the select caret...

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[@forinda]

Thank you! Just what I wanted

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This is so cool! Thank you for a perfect tutorial

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Amazing work!

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Yeah, thats a game-changer. Thanks!

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Very helpful, thanks!

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Awesome and clear, cheers Simon! :)

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So awesome. Thanks for the great video!

[@megh219]

Very well explained!! great video

[@anglerpocky]

Most excellent timing! 🙏

[@abhishkk]

This is so helpful!! Thank you.

[@lh536]

Great video! Really amazing! I have some questions/issues... On the select field how can I change the caret color according to text color? and how can I stylish the select input (border radius, options background color... etc...)? why the style of a textarea field doesn't fits to the rest of the form? Thanks for your support!

[@jacobgraf83]

Are you using a plug-in for the preview or is that native VS Code?

[@jimmyj.6792]

Interested too 👍

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That's a vscode we've started implementing internally - we will eventually make it public and talk about it, _perhaps_, _at some point_. 🤞

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@@simonswiss Did anything ever happen on this? I'm doing a workshop at work next week where I'm introducing tw to our devs. Would be awesome to not have to switch back and forth to the browser. Cheers!

[@ifindev]

Really awesome!!

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Tailwind just keeps getting better. I can't wait to switch away from bootstrap

[@WarrenRunk]

For select, is there a way to change the background color/text of the currently selected option? This also seems to still vary between desktop and mobile so perhaps the answer is no. Either way thanks for the great video!

[@shaungbhone8368]

Nice background love it 💕

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Tailwind always delivers 😍

[@ewildgoose]

Could you cover some styles for fancy checkbox buttons please! I would like to see how you would style the classic toggle button that animates (without JavaScript). Also how you might do button style check boxes (eg green button for checked, red for unchecked, static label). Thanks!

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Nice video mate 😍

[@bassman2145]

Great and very helpful video! Does anybody know what font Simon is using in his code editor? I love it and I would like to obtain/use the same. Thanks!!!

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Great video.. What is your vs code font name?

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How do you do that live preview? Is that a vscode extension?

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Nice bro!!!! Help me a lot!!!

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[@michongoma7598]

Awesome!!! Thank you so much

[@awksomeid6965]

fucking amazing. this is exactly what i need. i’m so frustrated to style the select and options 🙄. W3c need to do some sh*t on this.

[@manuelperes4995]

it 's so great pretty nice Thanks

[@Rhidayah]

I like how you pronounce "shadow"

[@gndreload]

Hello, this is awesome. Thank you for sharing. What if I want to customize the options for the select input ?

[@tlgr3g]

Not possible with css at the moment. You would need to reimplement the dropdown. Tailwind's answer is Headless UI, which is an unstyled component library (react, vue). There are not many components there yet, but the select/dropdown is one that's covered.

[@ApoorvMote]

Thanks for explaining. But how are you able to override styles set by forms plugin with classes? I use typography plugin and I specify exact height for image. But typography plugin adds default top and botton margin for img in em based on screen sizes. I couldn't override it with classes in html. I had to override them in config. This also goes for all styles set by typograpy plugin. I cannot modify them in html at single location. I have to disable it completely and rewrite everywhere.

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Amazing!

[@anstapol]

Hey nice video! Is there any way of replicating your setup for VSCode?

[@NadeemGorsi]

Many Likes!!

[@YCode_]

thank you

[@mityukov]

Is there a way to scope that "form elements resets"? Like, apply them only within '.tw-form' containers? Otherwise, it's kind of another bootstrap ;)

[@randriamahandryrado9800]

Thank you, it's very helpfull. Does anyone know what theme and fonts he use for VS Code ?

[@jorgenUA]

cool video. I think you need to improve responsiveness (reduce the amount of code), and the framework will become almost perfect.

[@DespicariPirates]

what about the options value, how can u customize them

[@merictunc]

you can't style options

[@charlesdoley]

Very addictive 😘

[@amirbahador.developer]

ty sir 🙏🏻🌷🌹❤️👍

[@JohnCamacho]

how are you able to nest @apply inside of @layer? My build process is giving this error: "@apply is not supported within nested at-rules like @layer. You can fix this by un-nesting @layer"

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thank u so much. 1 more subscriber

[@raphaeljaggerd3585]

Yay!!

[@EnterOsaka]

I'm having trouble getting my checkbox styling to work! I've added the plugin, but I'm running into an issue. Has anyone had this issue yet?

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Say no more for libraries and for heavy packages. And start make your own components with Tailwindcss ❤

[@ganumelodyr6031]

Which text editor u r using

[@icokie]

awesome :)

[@louisgac87]

Great, but where can I copy/paste your code? :)

[@bakirxan]

Forms always been a pain to style. Thanks to tailwindcss team, now it's a breeze!

[@TheSysmat]

i try with 3.2.1; index.css:1:1: The `border-gray-300` class does not exist. If `border-gray-300` is a custom class, make sure it is defined within a `@layer` directive. dev: Plugin: vite:css

[@whatthefunction9140]

If I have a set of tw styles I add to every input, is there a way to group them and just add that name as a class?

[@amitmondal7427]

Useful.

[@hbela1000]

cool, thx.

[@al_mamun]

Here your todo list state for all tailwind official plugins: - [x] @tailwindcss/line-clamp - [x] @tailwindcss/forms - [ ] @tailwindcss/typography - [ ] @tailwindcss/aspect-ratio

[@lh536]

hey... where can I find line-clamp plugin video? 👍 Thanks!

[@al_mamun]

m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZ3LXp2DidJohrc

[@lh536]

@@al_mamun thank you!

[@bitmagie]

awsome

[@shaharyarahmed9899]

So what is the difference b/w @tailwindcss/forms and @tailwindcss/ui?