Building CSS Grids in TailwindCSS v1.2

Support for CSS grids has been added to Tailwind v1.2. Here's a little example:

1<div class="grid w-full grid-cols-2 gap-6 lg:grid-cols-4">
2  <div class="col-span-1 bg-red-500">Row 1, Column 1</div>
3  <div class="col-span-2 bg-blue-500">Row 1, Column 2, Span 2</div>
4  <div class="col-start-1 col-end-2 bg-green-500 lg:col-start-2 lg:col-end-4">Row 2, Start 2, End 4</div>
5  <div class="col-start-1 col-end-2 bg-blue-500 lg:col-end-4">Row 3, Start 1, End 4</div>
6  <div class="col-start-2 col-end-2 bg-red-500 lg:col-end-5">Row 4, Start 2, End 5</div>
7</div>

Tailwind provides support for a lot of CSS grid properties out of the box, but a lot of them don't have default values. The default values are based around a 12-column grid.

gap-*

Default values for gap are the spacing values setup in your configuration (same as margin, padding, etc).

1theme('spacing')

row-gap-*

There are no default values for the row-gap classes.

col-gap-*

There are no default values for the column gap classes.

grid-cols-*

The grid-cols-* sets the grid-template-columns and is used on the grid wrapper to tell the grid how many columns it should support. Default values:

 1none: 'none',
 2'1': 'repeat(1, minmax(0, 1fr))',
 3'2': 'repeat(2, minmax(0, 1fr))',
 4'3': 'repeat(3, minmax(0, 1fr))',
 5'4': 'repeat(4, minmax(0, 1fr))',
 6'5': 'repeat(5, minmax(0, 1fr))',
 7'6': 'repeat(6, minmax(0, 1fr))',
 8'7': 'repeat(7, minmax(0, 1fr))',
 9'8': 'repeat(8, minmax(0, 1fr))',
10'9': 'repeat(9, minmax(0, 1fr))',
11'10': 'repeat(10, minmax(0, 1fr))',
12'11': 'repeat(11, minmax(0, 1fr))',
13'12': 'repeat(12, minmax(0, 1fr))',

col-*

The col-* class sets the grid-column property, and tells the element how many columns it should span across. Default values:

 1auto: 'auto',
 2'span-1': 'span 1 / span 1',
 3'span-2': 'span 2 / span 2',
 4'span-3': 'span 3 / span 3',
 5'span-4': 'span 4 / span 4',
 6'span-5': 'span 5 / span 5',
 7'span-6': 'span 6 / span 6',
 8'span-7': 'span 7 / span 7',
 9'span-8': 'span 8 / span 8',
10'span-9': 'span 9 / span 9',
11'span-10': 'span 10 / span 10',
12'span-11': 'span 11 / span 11',
13'span-12': 'span 12 / span 12',

col-start-* / col-end-*

The col-start-* and col-end-* sets the grid-column-start and grid-column-end properties on the element. These tell the element where which column to start and end at, respectively. Default values:

 1'1': '1',
 2'2': '2',
 3'3': '3',
 4'4': '4',
 5'5': '5',
 6'6': '6',
 7'7': '7',
 8'8': '8',
 9'9': '9',
10'10': '10',
11'11': '11',
12'12': '12',
13'13': '13',

grid-rows-*

The grid-rows-* sets the grid-template-rows on the element, and is used on the grid wrapper to tell the element how many rows are in the grid. There are no default values.

row-*

The row-* sets the grid-row property on the element, telling it which rows to occupy. There are no default values.

row-start-* / row-end-*

The row-start-* and row-end-* sets the grid-row-start and grid-row-end properties on the element. These tell the element where which row to start and end at, respectively. There are no default values.

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