Tailwind expanding slider

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Tailwind expanding slider structure

We obviously have some help by already having made this before. For the Tailwind version, let's start by making the container and slider wrapper.

<div class="flex w-full h-full items-center justify-center"> <div class="flex w-5/6 h-5/6">  </div> </div>

Yes, that is basically it! So far, we didn't need anything fancy, but let's move onto how a slide should look.

<div class="slide relative flex-auto bg-cover bg-center transition-all duration-500 ease-in-out hover:flex-grow" style="background-image:url('img.png')" ></div>

There are two things to note here:

For the codepen, I used an inline background-image

I use the slide class for the hover

These two elements should be included in the tailwind.config.js file and extend Tailwind.

This config will look like this:

module.exports = { theme: { extend: { backgroundImage: { 1: "url('1.jpg')", 2: "url('2.jpg')", 3: "url('3.jpg')", 4: "url('4.jpg')", 5: "url('5.jpg')" }, flex: { 5: 5 } } }, variants: {}, plugins: [] };

With the config in place we can convert our HTML to look like this:

<div class="flex w-full h-full items-center justify-center"> <div class="flex w-5/6 h-5/6"> <div class="slide bg-1"></div> <div class="slide bg-2"></div> <div class="slide bg-3"></div> <div class="slide bg-4"></div> <div class="slide bg-5"></div> </div> </div>

Way cleaner, right?

Now all we need to do is add the custom CSS.

.slide { @apply relative flex-auto bg-cover bg-center transition-all duration-500 ease-in-out; } .slide:hover { @apply flex-5; }

And that's it! You can find this demo on the Tailwind playground.

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Tailwind expanding slider

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