Accent Color

​Basic usage

​Setting the accent color

Use the accent-* utilities to change the accent color of an element. This is helpful for styling elements like checkboxes and radio groups by overriding the browser’s default color.

<label>
  <input type="checkbox" checked> Browser default
</label>
<label>
  <input type="checkbox" class="accent-pink-500" checked> Customized
</label>

​Changing the opacity

While it’s possible to control the opacity of the accent color using the color opacity modifier, the rgba() alpha value is only supported in Firefox at this time (last tested November 2021).

<input type="checkbox" class="accent-emerald-500/25" checked> Emerald

​Applying conditionally

​Hover, focus, and other states

Tailwind lets you conditionally apply utility classes in different states using variant modifiers. For example, use hover:accent-pink-500 to only apply the accent-pink-500 utility on hover.

<input type="checkbox" class="accent-pink-300 focus:accent-pink-500" checked>

Note, while it’s possible to set an accent color using the hover and active modifiers, the resulting color will be slightly different than what you set, as browsers automatically adjust the brightness of the accent color for these two states.

For a complete list of all available state modifiers, check out the Hover, Focus, & Other States documentation.

​Breakpoints and media queries

You can also use variant modifiers to target media queries like responsive breakpoints, dark mode, prefers-reduced-motion, and more. For example, use md:accent-pink-500 to apply the accent-pink-500 utility at only medium screen sizes and above.

<input type="checkbox" class="accent-pink-300 md:accent-pink-500" checked>

To learn more, check out the documentation on Responsive Design, Dark Mode and other media query modifiers.

​Using custom values

​Customizing your theme

By default, Tailwind makes the entire default color palette available as accent colors. You can customize your color palette by editing theme.colors or theme.extend.colors in your tailwind.config.js file.

module.exports = {
  theme: {
    extend: {
      colors: {
        'regal-blue': '#243c5a',
      },
    }
  }
}

Alternatively, you can customize just your accent colors by editing theme.accentColor or theme.extend.accentColor in your tailwind.config.js file.

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

​Arbitrary values

If you need to use a one-off accent-color value that doesn’t make sense to include in your theme, use square brackets to generate a property on the fly using any arbitrary value.

<input type="checkbox" class="accent-[#50d71e]" checked>

Learn more about arbitrary value support in the arbitrary values documentation.