@benface/tailwindcss-reset

Opinionated Reset Plugin for Tailwind CSS

Requirements

This plugin requires Tailwind CSS 1.2 or later. If your project uses an older version of Tailwind, you should install the latest 1.x version of this plugin (npm install @benface/tailwindcss-reset@1.x).

Installation

npm install @benface/tailwindcss-reset

Usage

// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
  corePlugins: {
    preflight: true, /* the plugin extends Preflight so make sure it is not disabled */
  },
  plugins: [
    require('@benface/tailwindcss-reset'),
  ],
};

What it does

A few things:

• Makes everything position: relative, so that absolutely positioned elements are relative to their parent by default
• Resets the min-width and min-height of all elements to 0, since the default is auto which can cause overflow issues with flex items
• Changes background-position’s default value from left top to center center
• Changes background-repeat’s default value from repeat to no-repeat
• Removes default styles on form elements (border radius, background color, inherit all the font/text properties that usually inherit, etc.)
• Removes other opinionated styles set by user agent stylesheets (see reset.css to see them all)
• Enforces display: none on [hidden] elements by adding !important so that it is not overridden by utility classes

Changelog

[3.1.0] - 2022-06-29

Added

• Added cursor: pointer to all types of input that are buttons, for consistency with button
• Overrode Preflight’s arbitrary input and textarea placeholder color with color: inherit and opacity: 0.75
• Made color inherit on mark elements instead of being black by default
• Made text-align inherit on caption elements instead of being center by default

Thank you so much to Sophia Michelle Andren for this release’s inspiration ❤️