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Replace Complex Media Queries With Tailwind Container Queries

What's this blog post about?

Responsive web design is crucial for delivering a positive user experience on websites and web applications. With over 55% of all web traffic coming from mobile devices, ensuring responsiveness is more important than ever. Traditional media queries have limitations when styling elements based on their parent container's dimensions. Container queries address this by allowing you to apply styles based on an element's immediate parent width. Tailwind CSS container queries plugin enables developers to designate parent elements as containers with the @container class, then use variants like @lg: and @md: to apply responsive styles based on container breakpoints. This allows components to respond to their immediate parent size rather than only the whole viewport, leading to more dynamic and flexible layouts.

Company
Strapi

Date published
July 3, 2024

Author(s)
Emmanuel Uchenna

Word count
2750

Language
English

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