Layout Features
Explore how Tailwind CSS utilities help create structured page layouts by managing containers, viewport settings, floats, clears, positions, and stacking with z-index. Understand practical techniques for organizing navigation, sidebars, footers, and complex element groupings on your web pages.
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With Tailwind, we can lay out the elements on an entire page and manage common features like navigation, sidebars, and footers. We can also use Tailwind to put complex groupings of elements within a page, such as cards or hero blocks.
Let’s start with some general utilities Tailwind provides to help place elements on a page—the box-to-box relationships.
Containers
Many CSS frameworks use a container class as the general top-level container to specify the page width. While Tailwind does offer a .container utility, Tailwind’s version does much less than similar classes do in other frameworks. The .container utility specifies the max-width of the element based on the width of the browser viewport. For example, any viewport between 640 and 768 pixels wide would be set to a ...