Display

Block

Use to create a block-level element.

Flow-Root

Use .flow-root to create a block-level element with its own block formatting context.

<div class="flow-root bg-gray-400">
  <div class="my-4 block text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-500 px-4 py-2">1</div>
</div>
<div class="flow-root bg-gray-200">
  <div class="my-4 block text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2">2</div>
</div>

Inline Block

Use .inline-block to create an inline block-level element.

<div class="bg-gray-200">
  <div class="inline-block text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
  <div class="inline-block text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
</div>

Use .inline to create an inline element.

<div class="bg-gray-200">
  <div class="inline text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2">1</div>
  <div class="inline text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2">2</div>
  <div class="inline text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2">3</div>
</div>

Flex

Use .flex to create a block-level flex container.

Inline flex

Use .inline-flex to create an inline flex container.

<div class="inline-flex bg-gray-200">
  <div class="flex-1 text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
  <div class="flex-1 text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
  <div class="flex-1 text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
</div>

Grid

Use .grid to create a grid container.

<div class="grid gap-4 grid-cols-3">
  <!-- ... -->
</div>

Use to create an inline grid container.

<span class="inline-grid grid-cols-3 gap-x-4">
  <span>1</span>
  <span>1</span>
  <span>1</span>
</span>
<span class="inline-grid grid-cols-3 gap-x-4">
  <span>2</span>
  <span>2</span>
  <span>2</span>
</span>

Contents

Use .contents to create a “phantom” container whose children act like direct children of the parent..

Table

Use the .table, .table-row, .table-cell, .table-caption, .table-column, .table-column-group, .table-header-group, table-row-group, and .table-footer-group utilities to create elements that behave like their respective table elements.

<div class="table w-full">
    <div class="table-row">
      <div class="table-cell bg-gray-400 text-gray-700 px-4 py-2 text-sm">A cell with more content</div>
      <div class="table-cell bg-gray-200 text-gray-700 px-4 py-2 text-sm">Cell 2</div>
      <div class="table-cell bg-gray-400 text-gray-700 px-4 py-2 text-sm">Cell 3</div>
    </div>
    <div class="table-row">
      <div class="table-cell bg-gray-200 text-gray-700 px-4 py-2 text-sm">Cell 4</div>
      <div class="table-cell bg-gray-400 text-gray-700 px-4 py-2 text-sm">A cell with more content</div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Hidden

Use .hidden to set an element to display: none and remove it from the page layout (compare with .invisible from the visibility documentation).

<div class="flex bg-gray-200">
  <div class="hidden text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
  <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
  <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
</div>

To control the display property of an element at a specific breakpoint, add a {screen}: prefix to any existing display utility class. For example, use md:inline-flex to apply the inline-flex utility at only medium screen sizes and above.

For more information about Tailwind’s responsive design features, check out the documentation.

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md

lg

xl

<div class="flex sm:inline-flex md:block lg:hidden xl:flex ...">
  <!-- ... -->
</div>

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Customizing

By default, only responsive variants are generated for display utilities.

You can control which variants are generated for the display utilities by modifying the display property in the variants section of your tailwind.config.js file.

For example, this config will also generate hover and focus variants:

Disabling

If you don’t plan to use the display utilities in your project, you can disable them entirely by setting the display property to false in the corePlugins section of your config file:

  // tailwind.config.js
  module.exports = {
    corePlugins: {
      // ...
+     display: false,
  }