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Box Decoration Break

Tailwind CSS version
v2.1+

Utilities for controlling how element fragments should be rendered across multiple lines, columns, or pages.

Default class reference

Class
Properties
decoration-slicebox-decoration-break: slice;
decoration-clonebox-decoration-break: clone;

Usage

Use the decoration-slice and decoration-clone utilities to control whether properties like background, border, border-image, box-shadow, clip-page, margin, and padding should be rendered as if the element were one continuous fragment, or distinct blocks.

Hello
World
<span class="decoration-clone bg-gradient-to-b from-yellow-400 to-red-500 text-transparent ...">
  Hello<br>
  World
</span>

Responsive

To control the box-decoration-break property at a specific breakpoint, add a {screen}: prefix to any existing box-decoration-break utility. For example, use md:decoration-slice to apply the decoration-slice utility at only medium screen sizes and above.

<div class="decoration-clone md:decoration-slice ...">
  <!-- ... -->
</div>

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

Customizing

Variants

By default, only responsive variants are generated for box-decoration-break utilities.

You can control which variants are generated for the box-decoration-break utilities by modifying the boxDecorationBreak 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: {
        // ...
+       boxDecorationBreak: ['hover', 'focus'],
      }
    }
  }

Disabling

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

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