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Creating a Responsive Layout

Explore how to create responsive web layouts using Tailwind CSS's utility-first approach. Learn to apply breakpoints for designing adaptive components like headers that change based on screen size. Understand how to toggle visibility and reflow elements for an improved user experience across devices.

In this lesson, we’ll learn how to use breakpoints to adapt the layout or design of a website or application to different screen sizes.

Responsive design

Responsive design is a cornerstone of modern web development. Fortunately, Tailwind offers flexible utilities for applying media queries with ease.

There are five default responsive utility variants (breakpoints), which are named as follows:

  • sm (640 px)

  • md (768 px)

  • lg (1024 px)

  • xl (1280 px)

  • 2xl (1536 px)

The unit values in parentheses represent the minimal width option of their applied media query. Each breakpoint variant can be conditionally added to a utility class (by ...