---
title: Tailwind CSS
description: "Configure Tailwind CSS language support in Zed, including language servers, formatting, and debugging."
---

# Tailwind CSS

Zed has built-in support for Tailwind CSS autocomplete, linting, and hover previews.

- Language Server: [tailwindlabs/tailwindcss-intellisense](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss-intellisense)

Languages which can be used with Tailwind CSS in Zed:

- [Astro](./astro.md#using-the-tailwind-css-language-server-with-astro)
- [CSS](./css.md)
- [ERB](./ruby.md#using-the-tailwind-css-language-server-with-ruby)
- [Gleam](./gleam.md)
- [HEEx](./elixir.md#using-the-tailwind-css-language-server-with-heex-templates)
- [HTML](./html.md#using-the-tailwind-css-language-server-with-html)
- [TypeScript](./typescript.md#using-the-tailwind-css-language-server-with-typescript)
- [JavaScript](./javascript.md#using-the-tailwind-css-language-server-with-javascript)
- [PHP](./php.md#using-the-tailwind-css-language-server-with-php)
- [Svelte](./svelte.md#using-the-tailwind-css-language-server-with-svelte)
- [Vue](./vue.md#using-the-tailwind-css-language-server-with-vue)

## Configuration

If by default the language server isn't enough to make Tailwind work for a given language, you can configure the language server settings and add them to the `lsp` section of your `settings.json`:

```json [settings]
{
  "lsp": {
    "tailwindcss-language-server": {
      "settings": {
        "classFunctions": ["cva", "cx"],
        "experimental": {
          "classRegex": ["[cls|className]\\s\\:\\=\\s\"([^\"]*)"]
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
```

Refer to [the Tailwind CSS language server settings docs](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss-intellisense?tab=readme-ov-file#extension-settings) for more information.

### Using Tailwind CSS Mode in CSS Files

Zed includes support for the Tailwind CSS language mode, which provides full CSS IntelliSense support even when using Tailwind-specific at-rules like `@apply`, `@layer`, and `@theme`.
Configure language servers in Settings ({#kb zed::OpenSettings}) under Languages > CSS, or add to your settings file:

```json [settings]
{
  "languages": {
    "CSS": {
      "language_servers": [
        "tailwindcss-intellisense-css",
        "!vscode-css-language-server",
        "..."
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

The `tailwindcss-intellisense-css` language server serves as an alternative to the default CSS language server, maintaining all standard CSS IntelliSense features while adding support for Tailwind-specific syntax.

### Prettier Plugin

Zed supports Prettier out of the box, which means that if you have the [Tailwind CSS Prettier plugin](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/prettier-plugin-tailwindcss) installed, adding it to your Prettier configuration will make it work automatically:

```json
// .prettierrc
{
  "plugins": ["prettier-plugin-tailwindcss"]
}
```
