candidate() — tailwindcss Function Reference

Architecture documentation for the candidate() function in utils.ts from the tailwindcss codebase.

Function typescript Integrations WebpackLoader calls 1

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Dependency Diagram

graph TD
  12e584d2_c81a_6aa5_eed4_a926c30c0773["candidate()"]
  7cf1fe2b_69a4_05dc_ae13_d3eebe4e10fc["escape()"]
  12e584d2_c81a_6aa5_eed4_a926c30c0773 -->|calls| 7cf1fe2b_69a4_05dc_ae13_d3eebe4e10fc
  style 12e584d2_c81a_6aa5_eed4_a926c30c0773 fill:#6366f1,stroke:#818cf8,color:#fff

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Source Code

integrations/utils.ts lines 535–545

export function candidate(strings: TemplateStringsArray, ...values: any[]) {
  let output: string[] = []
  for (let i = 0; i < strings.length; i++) {
    output.push(strings[i])
    if (i < values.length) {
      output.push(values[i])
    }
  }

  return `.${escape(output.join('').trim())}`
}