In this article, we’ll explore how to create cards with Tailwind CSS, and add images and responsive designs. We also showcase practical examples to inspire your next project.

What are Tailwind CSS Cards?

Tailwind CSS Cards are versatile and highly customizable components that streamline the process of presenting data entries and information in a visually appealing and well-structured manner. Accordingly, these cards are designed to provide a clean and organized layout, allowing users to consume and understand the content displayed easily.

Tailwind Cards List

How to Create Cards with Tailwind CSS

We can create a Tailwind Card by bringing multiple Tailwind CSS components together. So, we’re going to discuss some of the elements that make up a card in Tailwind CSS.

The basic elements of a card include the following:

• Card container
• Card title
• Card description
• Card button
• Image Cover

Create a Card Container

The card container will be the wrapper of our card, and it’ll look something like the following:

<div class="max-w-sm rounded-lg border border-gray-200 shadow">

...

</div>

This ensures that our card won’t be bigger than the sm width and applies a border-radius of 8px, a gray border, a white background, and a shadow.

Card Title

Next, we’ll add a card title. A card title can be the product name, a user’s full name, or any title about the card’s content. However, there are some cards with optional header titles.

<h2 class="mb-2 text-2xl font-bold tracking-tight text-gray-900">

Card Title

</h2>

Card Description

The card description contains more context about the card item, such as a category, group, etc. This also allows the user to know more about the title of the card.

<p class="mb-3 text-gray-700">

Card description

</p>

Card Button

The card button allows us to create a CTA (call to action) within a card. Thus, this allows us to perform actions like add to cart or redirect the user to a product full page.

<button class="rounded-lg bg-blue-700 px-3 py-2 text-center text-sm font-medium text-white hover:bg-blue-800 focus:outline-none focus:ring-4 focus:ring-blue-300">

Card button

</button>

Card Outcome

Now that we know how to create a button, by putting everything together, our final card code will look something like below:

<div class="max-w-sm rounded-lg border border-gray-200 p-5 shadow">

  <h2 class="mb-2 text-2xl font-bold tracking-tight text-gray-900">Card Title</h2>

  <div class="flex flex-col items-start">

    <p class="mb-3 text-gray-700">Card description</p>

    <button class="rounded-lg bg-blue-700 px-3 py-2 text-center text-sm font-medium text-white hover:bg-blue-800 focus:outline-none focus:ring-4 focus:ring-blue-300">Card button</button>

  </div>

</div>