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Tailwind CSS Form Theme

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Tailwind CSS Form Theme

Symfony provides a minimal form theme for Tailwind CSS. Tailwind is a utility first CSS framework and provides unlimited ways to customize your forms. Tailwind has an official form plugin that provides a basic form reset that standardizes their look on all browsers. This form theme requires this plugin and adds a few basic tailwind classes so out of the box, your forms will look decent. Customization is almost always going to be required so this theme makes that easy.

An HTML form showing a range of form types styled using TailwindCSS.

To use, first be sure you have installed and integrated Tailwind CSS and the form plugin. Follow their respective documentation to install both packages.

If you prefer to use the Tailwind theme on a form by form basis, include the form_theme tag in the templates where those forms are used:

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{# ... #}
{# this tag only applies to the forms defined in this template #}
{% form_theme form 'tailwind_2_layout.html.twig' %}

{% block body %}
    <h1>User Sign Up:</h1>
    {{ form(form) }}
{% endblock %}

Customization

Customizing CSS classes is especially important for this theme.

Twig Form Functions

You can customize classes of individual fields by setting some class options.

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{{ form_row(form.title, {
    row_class: 'my row classes',
    label_class: 'my label classes',
    error_item_class: 'my error item classes',
    widget_class: 'my widget classes',
    widget_disabled_class: 'my disabled widget classes',
    widget_errors_class: 'my widget with error classes',
}) }}

When customizing the classes this way the defaults provided by the theme are overridden opposed to merged as is the case with other themes. This enables you to take full control of the classes without worrying about undoing the generic defaults the theme provides.

Project Specific Form Layout

If you have a generic Tailwind style for all your forms, you can create a custom form theme using the Tailwind CSS theme as a base.

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{% use 'tailwind_2_layout.html.twig' %}

{%- block form_row -%}
    {%- set row_class = row_class|default('my row classes') -%}
    {{- parent() -}}
{%- endblock form_row -%}

{%- block widget_attributes -%}
    {%- set widget_class = widget_class|default('my widget classes') -%}
    {%- set widget_disabled_class = widget_disabled_class|default('my disabled widget classes') -%}
    {%- set widget_errors_class = widget_errors_class|default('my widget with error classes') -%}
    {{- parent() -}}
{%- endblock widget_attributes -%}

{%- block form_label -%}
    {%- set label_class = label_class|default('my label classes') -%}
    {{- parent() -}}
{%- endblock form_label -%}

{%- block form_help -%}
    {%- set help_class = help_class|default('my label classes') -%}
    {{- parent() -}}
{%- endblock form_help -%}

{%- block form_errors -%}
    {%- set error_item_class = error_item_class|default('my error item classes') -%}
    {{- parent() -}}
{%- endblock form_errors -%}
This work, including the code samples, is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.
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