trying to include all tailwind utility classes

[welbinator]

I'm building a theme for wordpress and I know that letting tailwind scan your HTML and then include only the necessary classes is a neat feature, but when someone who is using my theme adds a custom HTML block to their page and includes some tailwind classes that weren't included during the build, that's a problem. So I want to just include all the tailwind utility classes, just include the whole library.

I've tried content []; I've tried purge: false, neither works. I still get a pretty stripped down tailwind.min.css file that barely includes any classes.

[wongjn]

This would not really be possible for v3 – there's an infinite amount of classes possible (due to the arbitrary features) and even without these, if you really wanted every single class possible, you would need to generate every possible combination of the variants, (like dark:first:hover:focus:md:visited:last:only:…:m-1) so there would be all the "base" classes plus all these permutations of variants and thus the total number of possible classes would be something like (71!¹ + 1) × number of "base" classes (maths probably not correct here, but something like this). The "real" number would be slightly less since some variants don't make sense together, i.e. sm:md:lg:xl:m-1 but this obscenely large number should demonstrate the point.

Footnotes

1. 71 factorial, equal to 850478588567862317521167644239926010288584608120796235886430763388588680378079017697280000000000000000 ↩