Tailwind CSS Layout Complete Reference

Last Updated : 18 Apr, 2025

Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework for rapid custom UI. It is a highly customizable, low-level CSS framework that gives you all of the building blocks that you need. As we know there are many CSS frameworks but people always choose the fast and easy framework to learn and use in the project. We can make the layout of a very quickly nice page using Tailwind CSS layout.

Tailwind CSS Class	Description
Container	It fix the max-width of an element to match the min-width of the breakpoint.
Box Sizing	It defines how the user should calculate the total width and height of an element.
Display	It defines how the components (div, hyperlink, heading, etc) are going to be placed on the web page.
Float	It defines the flow of content for controlling the wrapping of content around an element.
Clear	It is used to specify which side of floating elements are not allowed to float.
Object Fit	It specifies how an image or video should be resized to fit its content box.
Object Position	It specifies how an image or video element is positioned with x/y coordinates.
Overflow	It tells whether to clip content or to add scroll bars.
overscroll Behavior	It sets the behavior of the browser when the boundary of a scrolling area is reached.
Position	It is used for controlling how an element is positioned in the DOM.
Top/Right/Bottom/Left	These classes are used to control the alignment of a positioned element.
Visibility	It is used to specify whether an element is visible or not.
Z-index	It describes the z-index along the three-dimensional plane.

Below example will give you a brief idea about the Layout of Tailwind CSS:

Example:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
    <link href=
"https://unpkg.com/tailwindcss@^1.0/dist/tailwind.min.css" 
        rel="stylesheet">
</head>

<body class="text-center">
    <h1 class="text-green-600 text-5xl font-bold">
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    <div class="mx-10">
        <img class="float-right p-2" src=
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    </div>
</body>

</html>