TailwindCSS Spacing Plugin

This plugin generates a simple set of css classes for creating a predictable and harmonious spacing.

• Inset spacing: For all user interface containers.
• Inset squish spacing: Same as previous, but a squished inset reduces space top and bottom, for example by 50%. Used for buttons, inputs, data table cells, list items, etc.
• Stack spacing: For all stacked content. So for example panels, form fields and anything else that is stacked vertically.
• Inline spacing: Things that are displayed inline. For pills, tags, breadcrumbs, side-by-side form fields etc.

Read about Space in Design Systems for more details of the concept: https://medium.com/eightshapes-llc/space-in-design-systems-188bcbae0d62

Install

Using yarn

yarn add tailwindcss-spacing-helpers

Or using npm

npm i tailwindcss-spacing-helpers

Usage

In tailwind config include the plugin:

// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    require('tailwindcss-spacing-helpers')
  ],
}

This will produce css like this for each value in configs spacing object:

.inset-space-1 { padding: 0.25rem; }
.inset-squish-space-1 { padding: calc(0.25rem / 1.7 - 1px) 0.25rem calc(0.25rem / 1.7); }
.stack-space-1 { margin-bottom: 0.25rem; }
.stack-space-1:last-child { margin-bottom: 0; }
.inline-space-1 { margin-right: 0.25rem; }
.inline-space-1:last-child { margin-right: 0; }
 
/* ... */

To override values:

// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
  theme: {
    spacing: {
      sm: '8px',
      md: '12px',
      lg: '16px',
      xl: '24px',
    }
  },
  plugins: [
    require('tailwindcss-spacing-helpers')
  ],
}

This will produce:

.inset-space-sm { padding: 8px; }
.inset-squish-space-sm { padding: calc(8px / 1.7 - 1px) 8px calc(8px / 1.7); }
 
/* ... */

Variants

By default responsive variant is enabled.

// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
  variants: {
    spacing: ['responsive'],
  },
}

License

Licensed under the MIT license.