Interactivity

Caret Color

Utilities for controlling the color of the text input cursor.

Quick reference

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Basic usage

Setting the caret color

Use the caret-{color} utilities to change the color of the text input cursor.

Focus the textarea to see the new caret color

<textarea class="caret-pink-500 ..."></textarea>

Applying conditionally

Hover, focus, and other states

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

<textarea class="caret-blue-500 focus:caret-indigo-500"></textarea>

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:caret-indigo-500 to apply the caret-indigo-500 utility at only medium screen sizes and above.

<textarea class="caret-blue-500 md:caret-indigo-500"></textarea>

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 caret colors. You can customize your color palette by editing theme.colors or theme.extend.colors in your tailwind.config.js file.

tailwind.config.js

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

Alternatively, you can customize just your caret colors by editing theme.caretColor or theme.extend.caretColor 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 caret-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.

<textarea class="caret-[#50d71e]"></textarea>

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