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Using Tailwind CSS Focus Variant for Accessible Buttons

📖 Scenario: You are creating a simple webpage with buttons that change style when they receive keyboard focus. This helps users who navigate with the keyboard see which button is active.

🎯 Goal: Build a webpage with three buttons styled using Tailwind CSS. Each button should have a visible focus style using the focus: variant to improve accessibility.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create three buttons with the text: 'Save', 'Cancel', and 'Delete'.

Use Tailwind CSS classes to style the buttons with a base background color and text color.

Add a focus: variant to change the button's border and background color when focused.

Ensure the focus style is clearly visible for keyboard users.

Use semantic HTML and include a lang attribute in the html tag.

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Making interactive elements like buttons clearly show focus helps users who navigate websites using keyboards or assistive devices. This is important for accessibility and usability.

💼 Career

Web developers often use Tailwind CSS to quickly style components and ensure accessibility by using focus variants and semantic HTML.

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Create the HTML structure with three buttons

Create a basic HTML5 skeleton with lang="en" in the <html> tag. Inside the <body>, add three <button> elements with the exact texts: Save, Cancel, and Delete.

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Need a hint?

Remember to add lang="en" in the <html> tag and create three buttons with the exact texts.

Add base Tailwind CSS classes to style the buttons

Add Tailwind CSS classes to each button to give them a base style: use bg-blue-500 for background color, text-white for text color, px-4 and py-2 for padding, and rounded for rounded corners.

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    Save
    Cancel
    Delete

Need a hint?

Use the exact Tailwind classes bg-blue-500 text-white px-4 py-2 rounded on each button.

Add focus variant classes to change border and background on focus

Add Tailwind CSS focus: variant classes to each button to change the border to 2px solid with color focus:border-yellow-400 and background color to focus:bg-yellow-400 when the button is focused.

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    Focus Variant Buttons


    Save
    Cancel
    Delete

Need a hint?

Add focus:border-2 focus:border-yellow-400 focus:bg-yellow-400 to each button's class attribute.

Include Tailwind CSS via CDN script in the head

Add the official Tailwind CSS CDN inside the <head> section using a <script> tag with src https://cdn.tailwindcss.com to enable Tailwind styles on the page.

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    Save
    Cancel
    Delete

Need a hint?

Add the Tailwind CSS CDN script tag exactly as <script src="https://cdn.tailwindcss.com"></script> inside the <head>.