Fill

​Basic usage

​Setting the fill color

Use the fill-* utilities to change the fill color of an SVG.

<svg class="fill-blue-500 ...">
  <!-- ... -->
</svg>

This can be useful for styling icon sets like Heroicons.

​Applying conditionally

​Hover, focus, and other states

Tailwind lets you conditionally apply utility classes in different states using variant modifiers. For example, use hover:fill-cyan-700 to only apply the fill-cyan-700 utility on hover.

<svg class="fill-cyan-500 hover:fill-cyan-700">
  <!-- ... -->
</svg>

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:fill-cyan-700 to apply the fill-cyan-700 utility at only medium screen sizes and above.

<svg class="fill-cyan-500 md:fill-cyan-700">
  <!-- ... -->
</svg>

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 fill 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 fill colors by editing theme.fill or theme.extend.fill 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 fill 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.

<svg class="fill-[#243c5a]">
  <!-- ... -->
</svg>

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