Gap between grid cells in Tailwind - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Create a Grid Layout with Gaps Using Tailwind CSS

📖 Scenario: You are building a simple photo gallery webpage. You want to arrange photos in a neat grid with space between each photo so they don't touch each other.

🎯 Goal: Build a grid layout using Tailwind CSS that displays four colored boxes arranged in two columns and two rows with a visible gap between the grid cells.

📋 What You'll Learn

Use a div container with Tailwind CSS grid classes

Create exactly four child div elements inside the grid container

Apply a gap between grid cells using Tailwind CSS gap utilities

Each grid cell should have a distinct background color and fixed height

The grid should have two columns

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Grid layouts with gaps are common in photo galleries, product listings, and dashboards to keep content organized and visually clear.

💼 Career

Knowing how to use Tailwind CSS grid and gap utilities helps front-end developers build clean, responsive layouts quickly and accessibly.

1

Set up the HTML grid container and four grid items

Create a div with the class grid and inside it add four child div elements. Each child div should have a fixed height of h-24 and background colors bg-red-400, bg-green-400, bg-blue-400, and bg-yellow-400 respectively.

Tailwind

Need a hint?

Use the grid class on the container and add four child div elements with the specified height and background color classes.

2

Add two columns to the grid

Add the Tailwind CSS class grid-cols-2 to the grid container div to create two columns.

Tailwind

Need a hint?

Add the grid-cols-2 class to the existing grid class on the container.

3

Add a gap between the grid cells

Add the Tailwind CSS class gap-4 to the grid container div to create a gap between the grid cells.

Tailwind

Need a hint?

Add the gap-4 class alongside the existing classes on the grid container.

4

Add accessibility and responsive design

Add the role="list" attribute to the grid container div for accessibility. Also, replace the grid-cols-2 class with grid-cols-1 sm:grid-cols-2 to make the grid have one column on small screens and two columns on larger screens.

Tailwind

Need a hint?

Add the role="list" attribute to the container and replace grid-cols-2 with grid-cols-1 sm:grid-cols-2 in the container's class list.