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Modern CSS with Tailwind, 2nd Edition
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Modern CSS with Tailwind, 2nd Edition

by Noel Rappin
May 2022
Intermediate to advanced
104 pages
2h 24m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Size and Shape

Perhaps the first thing you notice about text on a web page is its size and styling. Tailwind provides a series of utilities for each.

The effective default for text size is the text-base class, which defines the CSS properties font-size: 1rem and line-height: 1.5rem, meaning the font size for text-base is the same as the font size for the root element of your page, and the line height is 1.5 times that size. Tailwind provides a family of utilities, text-{size}, which includes two smaller steps, ten larger ones, and the base class, giving us thirteen sizes overall. Each step defines a font size and a line height, as listed in the table.

ClassFont SizeLine Height

text-xs

0.75rem

1rem

text-sm

0.875rem

1.25rem

text-base

1rem

1.5rem

text-lg

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