tailwindcss-safe-area

Tailwind CSS utilities for safe areas.

Features

• Responsive safe area utilities tailored for margin, padding, height and position
• Flexible spacing helpers to extend safe areas or ensure content remains unobstructed with offset and minimum value variants
• Modern CSS support, including inline-start, inline-end, scroll-margin, scroll-padding and more to handle modern layouts

Getting started

npm install --dev tailwindcss-safe-area

Then add the plugin to your tailwind.config.js file:

// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
	theme: {},
	plugins: [require("tailwindcss-safe-area")],
};

Usage

To extend content behind the safe area, add or append viewport-fit=cover to your viewport meta tag:

<meta
	name="viewport"
	content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover"
/>

Base utilities

Handle safe area margin, padding, height and position.

<header class="pt-safe">...</header>
<main class="px-safe">...</main>
<footer class="pb-safe">...</footer>

Offset utilities

Extend base utilities with an additional offset.

<div class="pr-safe-offset-4">...</div>

This adds right padding equal to the safe area plus 4.

Or utilities

Apply a minimum value while respecting the safe area.

<div class="pb-safe-or-8">...</div>

This adds bottom padding equal to the larger of the safe area or 8.

Generated styles

Margin

.m-safe {
	margin-top: env(safe-area-inset-top);
	margin-right: env(safe-area-inset-right);
	margin-bottom: env(safe-area-inset-bottom);
	margin-left: env(safe-area-inset-left);
}
.mx-safe {
	margin-right: env(safe-area-inset-right);
	margin-left: env(safe-area-inset-left);
}
.my-safe {
	margin-top: env(safe-area-inset-top);
	margin-bottom: env(safe-area-inset-bottom);
}
.ms-safe {
	margin-inline-start: env(safe-area-inset-left);
}
.me-safe {
	margin-inline-end: env(safe-area-inset-left);
}
.mt-safe {
	margin-top: env(safe-area-inset-top);
}
.mr-safe {
	margin-right: env(safe-area-inset-right);
}
.mb-safe {
	margin-bottom: env(safe-area-inset-bottom);
}
.ml-safe {
	margin-left: env(safe-area-inset-left);
}

Scroll margin

Same as margin, prefixed with scroll-.

Padding

.p-safe {
	padding-top: env(safe-area-inset-top);
	padding-right: env(safe-area-inset-right);
	padding-bottom: env(safe-area-inset-bottom);
	padding-left: env(safe-area-inset-left);
}
.px-safe {
	padding-right: env(safe-area-inset-right);
	padding-left: env(safe-area-inset-left);
}
.py-safe {
	padding-top: env(safe-area-inset-top);
	padding-bottom: env(safe-area-inset-bottom);
}
.ps-safe {
	padding-inline-start: env(safe-area-inset-left);
}
.pe-safe {
	padding-inline-end: env(safe-area-inset-left);
}
.pt-safe {
	padding-top: env(safe-area-inset-top);
}
.pr-safe {
	padding-right: env(safe-area-inset-right);
}
.pb-safe {
	padding-bottom: env(safe-area-inset-bottom);
}
.pl-safe {
	padding-left: env(safe-area-inset-left);
}

Scroll padding

Same as padding, prefixed with scroll-.

Height

.min-h-screen-safe {
	min-height: calc(
		100vh - (env(safe-area-inset-top) + env(safe-area-inset-bottom))
	);
	min-height: -webkit-fill-available;
}
.max-h-screen-safe {
	max-height: calc(
		100vh - (env(safe-area-inset-top) + env(safe-area-inset-bottom))
	);
	max-height: -webkit-fill-available;
}
.h-screen-safe {
	height: calc(
		100vh - (env(safe-area-inset-top) + env(safe-area-inset-bottom))
	);
	height: -webkit-fill-available;
}

Position

.inset-safe: {
	top: env(safe-area-inset-top);
	right: env(safe-area-inset-right);
	bottom: env(safe-area-inset-bottom);
	left: env(safe-area-inset-left);
}
.inset-x-safe: {
	right: env(safe-area-inset-right);
	left: env(safe-area-inset-left);
}
.inset-y-safe: {
	top: env(safe-area-inset-top);
	bottom: env(safe-area-inset-bottom);
}
.start-safe: {
	inset-inline-start: env(safe-area-inset-left);
}
.end-safe: {
	inset-inline-end: env(safe-area-inset-left);
}
.top-safe: {
	top: env(safe-area-inset-top);
}
.right-safe: {
	right: env(safe-area-inset-right);
}
.bottom-safe: {
	bottom: env(safe-area-inset-bottom);
}
.left-safe: {
	left: env(safe-area-inset-left);
}

Variants

Spacing-based utiltiies can be augmented with either -offset-{value} or -or-{value} suffixes.

For example, using Tailwind's default spacing scale:

.mr-safe-offset-8 {
	margin-right: calc(env(safe-area-inset-right) + 2rem);
}
.pb-safe-or-20 {
	padding-bottom: max(env(safe-area-inset-right), 5rem);
}

Troubleshooting

The height utilities may not always work as expected. Add the following global CSS for the correct behaviour:

@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;

@layer base {
	html,
	body,
	#root {
		height: -webkit-fill-available;
	}
}