TW Elements

TW Elements is a free, MIT-licensed UI component library that adds 500+ interactive components and 117+ design blocks to Tailwind CSS projects. It runs as a Tailwind CSS plugin, extending standard Tailwind utilities with JavaScript-powered widgets like datepickers, modals, carousels, and charts, as well as ready-made landing page sections. The project is developed and maintained by MDBootstrap, the team behind the MDB UI Kit for Bootstrap.

What is TW Elements?

TW Elements is a collection of open-source components and design blocks built specifically for Tailwind CSS. It takes a Tailwind project as input and produces interactive UI elements plus responsive page sections, delivered through a plugin and a JavaScript bundle. The library is free for personal and commercial use and is available on NPM, CDN, and through the MDB GO/CLI tool.

Key Features

• 500+ UI components — a component library covering forms, navigation, data display, and feedback elements, including Datepicker, Timepicker, Dropdown, Modal, Tooltip, Carousel, Accordion, Tabs, Stepper, Charts, and more.
• 117+ design blocks — responsive landing page sections such as Hero, Pricing, Call to action, Features, Contact, News/blog, Team, Stats, Testimonials, Content, Newsletter, Projects, Headers, FAQ, Logo Clouds, Banners, and Mega Menu.
• Dark mode support — components respond to Tailwind's darkMode: "class" configuration, letting you toggle dark styling by adding a class to the document root.
• Easy theming & customization — built on Tailwind utility classes, so colors, spacing, and typography are customized with standard Tailwind config values rather than overrides.
• Simple, 1 minute install — installable via NPM, CDN, or MDB GO/CLI; NPM setup requires adding the plugin to tailwind.config.js and loading a JavaScript file.
• Free for personal & commercial use — the library is MIT licensed, with no attribution requirement mentioned in the README.
• Framework integrations — official integration guides exist for Django, Angular, Express, Laravel, Next.js, Nuxt, React, Remix, Solid, Svelte, SvelteKit, and Vue.
• Community support — an active GitHub Discussions community for questions, feature requests, and feedback; the repository has over 13,000 stars.

Who is it for?

• Tailwind CSS developers who want interactive widgets without writing JavaScript from scratch — drop in a datepicker, modal, or carousel with markup and initialization code.
• Front-end designers who need production-ready landing page sections — copy a design block like Pricing or Team and adapt the content.
• Full-stack developers working in frameworks like Laravel, Django, Next.js, or Vue who want a unified Tailwind UI kit with framework-specific setup guides.
• Rapid prototypers who want to test ideas quickly using the CDN version in a plain HTML page without installing packages.

What can you do with TW Elements?

• Build a marketing site: combine design blocks — Hero, Features, Pricing, Testimonials, FAQ — into a complete landing page with consistent Tailwind styling.
• Add interactive form controls: use the Datepicker, Timepicker, Select, Switch, and File input components for forms that need more than native HTML inputs.
• Create data visualizations: use the Charts component to render charts inside Tailwind-styled pages without adding a separate charting framework.
• Prototype in plain HTML: load the CDN scripts into any HTML file to test components immediately, without a build step.

How does TW Elements work?

TW Elements is a Tailwind CSS plugin. After installing via NPM, you register it in tailwind.config.js under plugins and extend the content array with the library's JavaScript files. Interactive components then load when you include the tw-elements.umd.min.js script (or import 'tw-elements' in a bundler). The CDN option skips the build step: add two stylesheets and one script tag, and components work from a static HTML page.

Pricing

The core TW Elements library is free and MIT-licensed. The README lists no paid tier for the components themselves; MDB GO / CLI is a separate hosting and deployment platform with its own account-based workflow.

Alternatives

• Flowbite — another open-source Tailwind CSS component library with a similar component set and Figma design files.
• DaisyUI — a Tailwind CSS component library that adds class-based components without requiring JavaScript for every element.

FAQ

Is TW Elements free?

Yes, the library is MIT licensed and free for personal and commercial use. The README states this explicitly and the GitHub repository does not mention any paid tier for the core components.

Does TW Elements support dark mode?

Yes. Dark mode is supported and activated by configuring Tailwind's darkMode to "class" and adding the appropriate class to the document root. The components are built to respond to that class.

What frameworks can I use TW Elements with?

Official integration guides cover Django, Angular, Express, Laravel, Next.js, Nuxt, React, Remix, Solid, Svelte, SvelteKit, and Vue. The library itself is framework-agnostic and works with any Tailwind CSS setup.

How do I install TW Elements?

You can install it via NPM (npm install tw-elements), use MDB GO/CLI (mdb init tailwind-elements-free), or load the CDN scripts directly into an HTML page. The NPM path requires adding the plugin to tailwind.config.js.

Does TW Elements work without JavaScript?

No. The interactive components like modals, dropdowns, and datepickers rely on the bundled JavaScript file. Static components such as buttons and badges are just Tailwind utility classes and work without JS.