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Font Size

Utilities for controlling the font size of an element.

Class reference

Class Properties
.text-xs font-size: .75rem;
.text-sm font-size: .875rem;
.text-base font-size: 1rem;
.text-lg font-size: 1.125rem;
.text-xl font-size: 1.25rem;
.text-2xl font-size: 1.5rem;
.text-3xl font-size: 1.875rem;
.text-4xl font-size: 2.25rem;
.text-5xl font-size: 3rem;

Usage

Control the font size of an element using the .text-{size} utilities.

.text-xs

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.text-sm

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.text-base

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.text-lg

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.text-xl

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.text-2xl

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.text-3xl

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.text-4xl

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.text-5xl

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

<p class="text-xs ...">The quick brown fox ...</p>
<p class="text-sm ...">The quick brown fox ...</p>
<p class="text-base ...">The quick brown fox ...</p>
<p class="text-lg ...">The quick brown fox ...</p>
<p class="text-xl ...">The quick brown fox ...</p>
<p class="text-2xl ...">The quick brown fox ...</p>
<p class="text-3xl ...">The quick brown fox ...</p>
<p class="text-4xl ...">The quick brown fox ...</p>
<p class="text-5xl ...">The quick brown fox ...</p>

Responsive

To control the font size of an element at a specific breakpoint, add a {screen}: prefix to any existing font size utility. For example, use md:text-lg to apply the text-lg utility at only medium screen sizes and above.

For more information about Tailwind's responsive design features, check out the Responsive Design documentation.

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

Customizing

Responsive and State Variants

By default, only responsive variants are generated for text sizing utilities.

You can control which variants are generated for the text sizing utilities by modifying the textSizes property in the modules section of your Tailwind config file.

For example, this config will also generate hover and focus variants:

{
// ...
modules: {
    // ...
-   textSizes: ['responsive'],
+   textSizes: ['responsive', 'hover', 'focus', 'active', 'group-hover'],
}
}

Disabling

If you don't plan to use the text sizing utilities in your project, you can disable them entirely by setting the textSizes property to false in the modules section of your config file:

{
// ...
modules: {
    // ...
-   textSizes: ['responsive'],
+   textSizes: false,
}
}