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Overriding Styles

Overriding styles

All Tailwind Variants components provide an optional class / className for overriding classes on any component.

Overriding styles on a single component


import { tv } from "tailwind-variants";
 
const button = tv({
  base: "font-semibold text-white py-1 px-3 rounded-full active:opacity-80",
  variants: {
    color: {
      primary: "bg-blue-500 hover:bg-blue-700",
      secondary: "bg-purple-500 hover:bg-purple-700",
      success: "bg-green-500 hover:bg-green-700",
      error: "bg-red-500 hover:bg-red-700",
    },
  }
});
 
button({
  color: "secondary",
  class: "bg-pink-500 hover:bg-pink-500" // overrides the color variant
});
 
/**
 * Result: 
 * font-semibold text-white py-1 px-3 rounded-full active:opacity-80 bg-pink-500 hover:bg-pink-500
 */

Overriding styles on a component with slots


“Tailwind variants allows you to reduce repeated code in your project and make it more readable. They fixed the headache of building a design system with TailwindCSS.”

Zoey Lang
Full-stack developer, NextUI
import { tv } from "tailwind-variants";
 
const card = tv({
  slots: {
    base: "md:flex bg-slate-100 rounded-xl p-8 md:p-0 dark:bg-gray-900",
    avatar: "w-24 h-24 md:w-48 md:h-auto md:rounded-none rounded-full mx-auto drop-shadow-lg",
    wrapper: "flex-1 pt-6 md:p-8 text-center md:text-left space-y-4",
    description: "text-md font-medium",
    infoWrapper: "font-medium",
    name: "text-sm text-sky-500 dark:text-sky-400",
    role: "text-sm text-slate-700 dark:text-slate-500",
  },
});
 
const {base, avatar, wrapper, description, infoWrapper, name, role} = card();
 
return (
  <figure className={base({ class: "bg-purple-100 dark:bg-purple-800" })}>
    <img className={avatar()} src="/intro-avatar.png" alt="" width="384" height="512"/>
    <div className={wrapper()}>
      <blockquote>
        <p className={description()}>
          “Tailwind variants allows you to reduce repeated code in your
          project and make it more readable. They fixed the headache of
          building a design system with TailwindCSS.”
        </p>
      </blockquote>
      <figcaption className={infoWrapper()}>
        <div className={name({ class: "dark:text-purple-200 text-purple-500" })}>
          Zoey Lang
        </div>
        <div className={role({ class: "dark:text-purple-100" })}>
          Full-stack developer, NextUI
        </div>
      </figcaption>
    </div>
  </figure>
)