Tailwind Styled Content

Easily use TYPO3 with Tailwind CSS. Tailwind Styled Content is an alternative for fluid_styled_content using Tailwind CSS, providing a clean, robust and modern starting point for building websites with TYPO3.

TYPO3 + Tailwind CSS

What's Included

Content Elements

Tailwind Styled Content ships basic templates for (not all) default content elements. Its important to say, that we made some opinionated adjustments and settings. Thats why it is not a drop in replacement for fluid_styled_content and is more suitable for new projects.

Simplified content elements layout
Removed and added some frame_class options
New .frame spacing api
Overhauled textmedia template and gallery partial
Removed and added some imageorient options
Disabled the following content elements
- textpic (in favor of textmedia)
- table (in favor of RTE table)
- bullets (in favor of RTE lists)

Refer to the individual files for more details.

We’ve also introduced a Prose partial, which can be used as follows:

<f:render partial="Prose" contentAs="content">
    <!-- content -->
</f:render>

Form Elements

We override the default form element classes via YAML, as they were originally designed for Bootstrap. We use the form templates of version2.

Tailwind Plugins and Preset

Tailwind Styled Content comes with a Tailwind preset, a safelist and a plugin, which you can directly import from the composer package. No need for an additional npm package.

The preset extends Tailwind's default theme to better suit TYPO3 websites. It also includes the needed plugins like daisyUI, which makes Tailwind usable for non-component-based JS frameworks and tailwindcss/typography for RTE and default heading styling.

The Tailwind Styled Content plugin uses the .frame class to add robust and flexible spacing to all content elements. The combo classes added by the space_before_class and space_after_class fields, to adjusts the spacing of individual content elements, look like this: frame-space-(before|after)-(none|small|large). For further customization, check out the customization section.

Getting Started

1. Install Tailwind Styled Content (TSC)

Install it via Composer:

composer req jramke/tailwind-styled-content

Note: For legacy installations, use the Extension Manager in the backend. Make sure to adjust the paths in your Tailwind config.

2. Initialize Tailwind

To initialize Tailwind, use PostCSS as recommended. Follow these instructions: Tailwind CSS Installation using PostCSS.

For an easy setup, use vite-asset-collector by Simon Praetorius and simply import the your CSS file in your JS entry file. More info here: Vite Asset Collector.

3. Install Additional Dependencies

As Tailwind Styled Content relies on daisyUI and @tailwindcss/typography, you need to install them as development dependencies:

npm i -D daisyui@latest @tailwindcss/typography

4. Set Up Your Tailwind Config

Add Tailwind Styled Content to your tailwind.config.js. You'll need to define the content paths and safelist yourself, as they’re not merged with the preset.

import { preset, safelist } from './vendor/jramke/tailwind-styled-content';

/** @type {import('tailwindcss').Config} */
module.exports = {
    presets: [preset],
    content: [
        './vendor/jramke/tailwind-styled-content/**/*.{html,yaml,typoscript,tsconfig}',
        'packages/**/*.{html,js,yaml,typoscript,tsconfig}',
    ],
    safelist: [...safelist],
}

Customization

Tailwind

For basic Tailwind customization, refer to the Tailwind docs.

daisyUI

To customize daisyUI, I would recommend this approach, where you extend an existing theme with your brand colors. More details are available in the daisyUI docs.

Tailwind Styled Content (TSC)

To customize Tailwind Styled Content, use the tsc object in your Tailwind config.

You can tweak the .frame component’s CSS by adjusting the default vertical padding, breakpoint-specific padding, and spacing for the combo classes. Set frame: false to opt-out of these styles entirely.

The default config looks like this:

tsc: {
    frame: {
        default: '2.5rem',
        screens: {
            lg: '3.5rem',
        },
        multipliers: {
            small: '1.5',
            large: '1.5',
        },
    },
}

Tailwind Typography

To customize the typography styles, extend your Tailwind config or override the Prose.html partial in your distribution extension. Learn more here.

Development

The development setup uses DDEV and is based on this example.

Start DDEV Project

ddev start

Install JavaScript Dependencies

npm install

TYPO3

1. Setup the TYPO3 development environment for the needed version

ddev install-v11
ddev install-v12
ddev install-v13

The installations are then available at:

You can log into the backend with username admin and password Password1#.

2. Add the Tailwind Styled Content static TypoScript file

3. Include the generated Tailwind CSS in your TYPO3 page

page.includeCSS {
    tailwind = /output.css
    tailwind {
        disableCompression = 1
        excludeFromConcatenation = 1
    }
}

4. Start the Tailwind CLI build process

Replace [VERSION] with the desired installation version (e.g. v12):

ddev exec -d /var/www/html/[VERSION] npm run tailwind

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