CSS: Try putting a TailwindCSS icon into an input box

In this article, we’ll show you how to put a TailwindCSS icon into an input box using CSS. CSS is a technology used to define the style and layout of web pages, and TailwindCSS is a flexible CSS framework that provides a wealth of styling tools and components.

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Using Tailwind CSS Icons

To use Tailwind CSS icons in your input fields, first make sure you’ve imported Tailwind CSS into your project. You can do this by either importing the Tailwind CSS CDN link or installing it using npm.

Once installed, we can use the icon class names provided by TailwindCSS to place icons directly into the input box. For example, if we want to place a search icon in front of an input field, we can use the following code:

<!-- Using Tailwind CSS icons -->
<div class="relative">
<span class="absolute inset-y-0 left-0 pl-3 flex items-center">
<svg class="h-5 w-5 text-gray-400" fill="currentColor" viewBox="0 0 20 20">
<path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M13.828 11.172a5.5 5.5 0 111.414 1.414l4.243 4.243a1 1 0 01-1.414 1.414l-4.243-4.243a5.5 5.5 0 01-1.414-1.414zm-4.06-1.37a4 4 0 10-5.657-5.657 4 4 0 005.657 5.657z" clip-rule="evenodd" />
</svg>
</span>
<input class="pl-10 py-2 border border-gray-300 rounded-md" type="text" placeholder="Search">
</div>

In the above code, we place the search icon within a relatively positioned container, use absolute positioning to position the icon to the left of the input, and use some styles to adjust the spacing between the icon and the input.

Adjusting Icon Styles

Like other TailwindCSS classes, we can adjust the icon’s style to suit our needs. TailwindCSS provides several class names for adjusting icon styles, which can be combined as needed.

For example, if we want to resize an icon to 20×20 pixels, we can add the h-20 w-20 class name to the <svg> tag:

<!-- Adjust the icon size to 20x20 pixels -->
<svg class="h-20 w-20 text-gray-400" fill="currentColor" viewBox="0 0 20 20">
<!-- Omit other code -->
</svg>

Similarly, we can use other TailwindCSS classes to adjust the icon’s color, border, and other styles. TailwindCSS provides a rich set of class names to meet diverse design needs.

Custom Icons

In addition to using the icons provided by TailwindCSS, you can also create your own icons and place them in the input field. You can use third-party tools like FontAwesome to obtain custom icons, and then reference them in the input field using a similar method.

Here is a sample code that uses a FontAwesome icon and puts it into an input box:

<!-- Using FontAwesome Icons --> 
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.3/css/all.min.css"> 

<!-- Put the FontAwesome icon into the input box --> 
<div class="relative"> 
<span class="absolute inset-y-0 left-0 pl-3 flex items-center"> 
<i class="fas fa-search text-gray-400"></i> 
</span> 
<input class="pl-10 py-2 border border-gray-300 rounded-md" type="text" placeholder="Search">

</div>

In the above code, we first import the FontAwesome CSS file and then use the <i> tags and the corresponding class names to place the FontAwesome icon in the input field.

Summary

In this article, we demonstrated how to place a Tailwind CSS icon in an input field using CSS. By using the icon classes provided by Tailwind CSS, we can easily place the icon in the input field and adjust the icon style to suit our specific needs. Furthermore, we can also use custom icons to further meet our design needs. We hope this article has helped you use Tailwind CSS icons in CSS.