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Tailwind Subgrid: Align Card Grids to a Parent Grid

Stop hard-coding card heights or measuring them with JavaScript. Tailwind's grid-rows-subgrid lets cards inherit the parent grid's rows so titles, bodies, and footers align across the whole row.

6 min read
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Tailwind v4 @reference: Fix @apply in Blade & Scoped CSS

Tailwind v4 resolves @apply against the theme in the current file, so a second CSS bundle throws 'unknown utility class'. Here's how @reference fixes it without duplicating output.

7 min read
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Auto-Growing Textareas With No JavaScript Using Tailwind v4 field-sizing

Auto-resizing a textarea used to mean an Alpine listener fighting Livewire over `scrollHeight`. Tailwind v4's `field-sizing-content` does it in one class, no JavaScript.

6 min read
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Safelist Dynamic Blade Classes in Tailwind v4 with @source inline()

A Blade class like bg-{{ $color }}-500 works locally then disappears in production. Here's the Tailwind v4 fix with @source inline().

6 min read
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Tailwind v4 3D Transforms: Build a Flip Card With transform-3d and perspective, No JavaScript

Tailwind v4 added a full 3D transform toolkit. Here is the recipe for a flip card and a tilt-on-hover effect, built entirely with utility classes.

8 min read
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Tailwind v4 @utility — Define Custom Utilities in CSS, Not JavaScript

Your v3 addUtilities plugin is dead. Here's how the Tailwind v4 @utility directive replaces it — static, functional, and value-typed utilities, all in resources/css/app.css.

8 min read
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Tailwind v4 mask-* Utilities: Fade and Reveal Images Without Touching CSS

Tailwind v4.1 wraps CSS mask-image in a composable utility family. Fade hero images into the page, vignette photos, and build spotlight reveals without writing a line of custom CSS.

8 min read
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Tailwind v4 text-shadow Utilities: Make Headings Pop Without Custom CSS

After twenty years of inline `style="text-shadow: …"`, Tailwind finally has a utility for it. Here is the v4.1 cheat sheet: sizes, colour tinting, dark-mode swaps, and @theme customisation.

7 min read
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Tailwind v4 starting: and transition-discrete: Animate display:none Without JavaScript

Tailwind v4 ships a `starting:` variant that pairs with `transition-discrete` to fade elements in and out of display:none using only CSS. Here is the cookbook.

9 min read
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Tailwind v4 OKLCH + color-mix(): Design Tokens That Auto-Generate Tints and Shades

Tailwind v4's whole colour system runs on OKLCH and color-mix(). Define one brand token in @theme, get the full tint and shade ramp for free.

8 min read
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Tailwind v4 Gradient Utilities: bg-linear, bg-radial, bg-conic Explained

You upgrade to Tailwind v4, the upgrade tool runs, and your hero gradient is gone. Here is the new utility set: bg-linear, bg-radial, bg-conic: plus the colour-space modifiers that make them look good.

9 min read