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Tailwind CSS Converter

Convert between inline CSS and Tailwind CSS classes. 100% client-side processing.

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What is Tailwind CSS?

Tailwind CSS (Adam Wathan, 2017) is a utility-first CSS framework that provides low-level utility classes — flex, p-4, text-center, bg-blue-500 — instead of pre-styled components. You compose designs directly in markup without writing custom CSS for most use cases.

Why utility-first?

Traditional CSS suffers from naming hell (.card vs .product-card-large-with-image), specificity wars, and unused styles. Utility classes solve all three: tiny vocabulary (~500 utilities cover 95% of designs), no naming required, automatically purged in production. Tailwind v4 (Stable in January 2025, after 2024 alpha/beta) generates only the CSS you actually use — typical bundle size is 5–20 KB vs Bootstrap's 200+ KB.

Why convert between CSS and Tailwind?

Two main scenarios. Migrating an existing codebase: you have stylesheets full of CSS rules that need to become Tailwind classes. Debugging or documentation: you see Tailwind classes and want to know the underlying CSS to understand specificity, override rules, or replicate elsewhere. This converter handles both directions instantly.

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