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I learned not to fear the arbitrary size feature of tailwind. While building out reader.waylonwalker.com I kept getting content flowing off the screen, and...

Date: April 12, 2024

I learned not to fear the arbitrary size feature of tailwind. While building out reader.waylonwalker.com <https://reader.waylonwalker.com> I kept getting content flowing off the screen, and struggling to keep it on the screen. I really felt that I should be able to do this with vanilla tailwind, but after some encouragement from Twitter I decided to lean on arbitrary values and it worked.

Don’t fear the arbitrary values.

```
<li class="max-w-[100vw]">
</li>
```

Learn more about using-arbitrary-values from their docs docs <https://tailwindcss.com/docs/adding-custom-styles#using-arbitrary-values>