--- title: Tailwind CSS Tips and Tricks Worth Knowing | daily.dev description: Tailwind allows us to change the style of an element based on its state with helper classes. There are some times where we are forced to use CSS for our... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/tailwind-css-tips-and-tricks-worth-knowing-tvycaidq8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Tailwind CSS Tips and Tricks Worth Knowing | daily.dev og:description: Tailwind allows us to change the style of an element based on its state with helper classes. There are some times where we are forced to use CSS for our... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/tailwind-css-tips-and-tricks-worth-knowing-tvycaidq8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/TVyCaidq8.png og:image:alt: Tailwind CSS Tips and Tricks Worth Knowing og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Tailwind CSS Tips and Tricks Worth Knowing **[builder.io](https://daily.dev/sources/builderio)** · 1 min read · 323 upvotes · 38 comments ## Summary Tailwind allows us to change the style of an element based on its state with helper classes. There are some times where we are forced to use CSS for our styles. Tailwind has some very useful and easy-to-use animation utility classes. For example, we can add the transition color class and set a duration of 300 milliseconds. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@oxconcept** · 2 upvotes > Great Content! **@hamatoyogi** · 2 upvotes > Just updated the post with 2 more tips! **@erikg57** · 1 upvotes > Great! **@oubaidaakilan** · 1 upvotes > Thx man for your efforts , l love it 😍😍, it is explained as well ♥️ **@tigger** · 1 upvotes > useful article! 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