# Tailwind CSS Forms

A plugin that provides a basic reset for form styles that makes form elements easy to override with utilities.

Repository: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss-forms
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tailwind-css-forms
Homepage: https://tailwindcss-forms.vercel.app
Language: HTML
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-05-12T14:00:27+00:00
Link (homepage): https://tailwindcss-forms.vercel.app

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 82, release rhythm 30, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2121, "days_push": 113, "days_rel": 259, "gap_med": 234.0, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4568, forks 231 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:53.582086+00:00)

## What it is
An official Tailwind CSS plugin that provides a basic reset for form element styles, making inputs, selects, textareas, and checkboxes easy to customize with utility classes. It also generates form-* classes for explicitly applying form styles to arbitrary elements.

## Use cases
- reset default browser form styles in a tailwind project
- style select and checkbox elements with tailwind utilities
- make a div look like a form input using form-input class
- normalize form element appearance across browsers
- customize checkbox colors with text color utilities

## When to choose
- you use Tailwind CSS and want consistent, utility-friendly form styling
- you need to style hard-to-customize elements like select and checkbox
- you want a lightweight official plugin instead of a full component library

## When to avoid
- you don't use Tailwind CSS
- you need fully prebuilt form components with validation and logic
- you want completely unstyled form elements

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: css-framework, form-handling, ui-components
- domain: frontend, web-development, web-design
- platform: browser
- tags: tailwind-css, form-styles, css-plugin, utility-classes, form-reset, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- tailwindlabs/tailwindcss-forms (main) score 67
- tailwindlabs/tailwindcss-custom-forms (mirror) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:53.582086+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:19:57.714289+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss-forms (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:53.582086+00:00, sha 3a6b5617f0d2)
  - homepage: https://tailwindcss-forms.vercel.app (fetched 2026-08-29T09:05:29.444126+00:00, sha 42e448ace859)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.