Transition Property

Usage

Use the transition-{properties} utilities to specify which properties should transition when they change.

Prefers-reduced-motion

You can conditionally apply animations and transitions using the motion-safe and motion-reduce variants:

<button class="transition transform hover:-translate-y-1 motion-reduce:transition-none motion-reduce:transform-none ...">
  Hover me
</button>

These variants are not enabled by default, but you can enable them in the variants section of your tailwind.config.js file:

// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
  // ...
  variants: {
    transitionProperty: ['responsive', 'motion-safe', 'motion-reduce']
  }
}

Learn more in the variants documentation.

Responsive

To change which properties of an element transition at a specific breakpoint, add a {screen}: prefix to any existing transition-property utility. For example, use md:transition-colors to apply the transition-colors utility at only medium screen sizes and above.

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

Customizing

Property values

By default, Tailwind provides transition-property utilities for seven common property combinations. You change, add, or remove these by customizing the transitionProperty section of your Tailwind theme config.

  // tailwind.config.js
  module.exports = {
    theme: {
      extend: {
        transitionProperty: {
+         'height': 'height',
+         'spacing': 'margin, padding',
        }
      }
    }
  }

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

Variants

By default, only responsive variants are generated for transition-property utilities.

You can control which variants are generated for the transition-property utilities by modifying the transitionProperty 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: {
      extend: {
        // ...
+       transitionProperty: ['hover', 'focus'],
      }
    }
  }

Disabling

If you don't plan to use the transition-property utilities in your project, you can disable them entirely by setting the transitionProperty property to false in the corePlugins section of your config file:

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