Grid Auto Columns

Tailwind CSS version

v1.9.0+

Utilities for controlling the size of implicitly-created grid columns.

Class reference

Usage

Use the auto-cols-{size} utilities to control the size implicitly-created grid columns.

<div class="grid grid-flow-col auto-cols-max">
  <div>1</div>
  <div>2</div>
  <div>3</div>
</div>

Responsive

To control the grid-auto-columns property at a specific breakpoint, add a {screen}: prefix to any existing grid-auto-columns utility. For example, use md:auto-cols-min to apply the auto-cols-min utility at only medium screen sizes and above.

<div class="grid grid-flow-col auto-cols-max md:auto-cols-min">
  <div>1</div>
  <div>2</div>
  <div>3</div>
</div>

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

Customizing

By default Tailwind includes four general purpose grid-auto-columns utilities. You can customize these in the theme.gridAutoColumns section of your tailwind.config.js file.

  // tailwind.config.js
  module.exports = {
    theme: {
      extend: {
        gridAutoColumns: {
          '2fr': 'minmax(0, 2fr)',
        }
      }
    }
  }

Learn more about customizing the default theme in the theme customization documentation.

Responsive and pseudo-class variants

By default, only responsive variants are generated for grid-auto-columns utilities.

You can control which variants are generated for the grid-auto-columns utilities by modifying the gridAutoColumns property in the variants section of your tailwind.config.js file.

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

  // tailwind.config.js
  module.exports = {
    variants: {
      // ...
-     gridAutoColumns: ['responsive'],
+     gridAutoColumns: ['responsive', 'hover', 'focus'],
    }
  }

Disabling

If you don’t plan to use the grid-auto-columns utilities in your project, you can disable them entirely by setting the gridAutoColumns property to false in the corePlugins section of your config file:

  // tailwind.config.js
  module.exports = {
    corePlugins: {
      // ...
+     gridAutoColumns: false,
    }
  }

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