Forms Plugin

@tailwindcss/forms is a 1:1 PHP port of the official forms plugin. It provides an opinionated reset for form controls — text inputs, textareas, selects, checkboxes, and radios — bringing them to a consistent baseline (appearance reset, border, padding, focus ring, custom select chevron and checkbox/radio icons) that you can then override with utilities.

Usage

Load the plugin with @plugin and import the utilities layer:

use TailwindPHP\tw;

$css = tw::generate(
    '<input class="form-input"><select class="form-select"></select>',
    '@plugin "@tailwindcss/forms"; @import "tailwindcss/utilities.css";'
);

Strategy

The strategy option controls how styles are applied:

When strategy is omitted, both strategies are applied — native elements get the baseline reset and the form-* classes are available too. Set a single strategy to opt out of the other:

@plugin "@tailwindcss/forms" {
    strategy: "class";
}

Class strategy

With the class strategy (or the default), apply these classes explicitly to the elements you want to style:

$css = tw::generate(
    '
        <input class="form-input">
        <textarea class="form-textarea"></textarea>
        <select class="form-select"></select>
        <select class="form-multiselect" multiple></select>
        <input type="checkbox" class="form-checkbox">
        <input type="radio" class="form-radio">
    ',
    '
        @plugin "@tailwindcss/forms" {
            strategy: "class";
        }
        @import "tailwindcss/utilities.css";
    '
);

Each class resets the control's appearance and sets borders, padding, and a focus ring; form-select adds a chevron background image, and form-checkbox/form-radio add checked-state icons. Override any of it with regular utilities (for example class="form-input rounded-lg border-gray-300").

See Plugins for the @plugin directive and loading details.