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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Upgrade a Laravel App from Tailwind v3 to v4 with the Official Upgrade Tool

Tailwind v4 is a rewrite: Rust engine, no tailwind.config.js, renamed gradient and shadow scales. Here is the exact upgrade path I took on a production Laravel app, with the gotchas the upgrade tool will not catch for you.

10 min read
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Tailwind v4 Container Queries: Component-First Responsive Design Without Plugins

The same card looks broken in a sidebar and great in a hero. Container queries fix it: and Tailwind v4 ships them out of the box, no plugin required.

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Tailwind CSS v4 Dark Mode in Laravel: CSS-First with @custom-variant

Tailwind v4 killed tailwind.config.js. This walkthrough wires class-based dark mode end-to-end: @custom-variant in app.css, @theme tokens, an Alpine toggle, and a tiny inline script that kills the white flash on first paint.

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