Tailwind CSS checkbox styles are not working
Matthew C.
The Problem
You are using Tailwind CSS in your Next.js app. When you try to style a checkbox input, some Tailwind utility classes don’t work. For example, consider the following checkbox HTML input element:
<div class="p-6"> <input type="checkbox" className="h-16 w-16 cursor-pointer rounded-full text-green-600" /> </div>
The utility classes h-16, w-16, and cursor-pointer work but the utility classes rounded-full and text-green-600 do not. You can see this in the following Tailwind Play playground code demo.
The Solution
To fix this issue, add the @tailwindcss/forms plugin to your tailwind.config.js configuration file:
/** @type {import('tailwindcss').Config} */ export default { theme: { extend: { // ... }, }, plugins: [require('@tailwindcss/forms')], }
This plugin does a basic reset of the CSS styles of form elements. It removes the default styling applied to form elements by different browsers. Some of these styles are important for accessibility such as applying an outline to input elements when they are in focus.
The plugin adds some basic default styling to the different form elements including styles that are important for accessibility. These default styles are easy to override with Tailwind utility classes.
Removing the default form element styles and then giving them basic default styles makes the styling consistent across different browsers and serves as a good starting point for styling the form elements.
The rounded-full and text-green-600 styles don’t work without the style reset because the default styles applied by the browser, such as Chrome’s default HTML stylesheet, have a higher CSS specificity than the Tailwind utility classes.
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