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It looks like you're trying to use `tailwindcss` directly as a PostCSS plugin — install @tailwindcss/postcss (v4)

tailwindcss@4postcss@8#tailwindcss#postcss#v4-migration#build-error
It looks like you're trying to use `tailwindcss` directly as a PostCSS plugin. The PostCSS plugin has moved to a separate package, so to continue using Tailwind CSS with PostCSS you'll need to install `@tailwindcss/postcss` and update your PostCSS configuration.
Fix
npm install -D tailwindcss @tailwindcss/postcss postcss
npm uninstall autoprefixer postcss-import   # optional, no longer needed

Before (v3):

// postcss.config.mjs
export default {
  plugins: {
    'postcss-import': {},
    tailwindcss: {},
    autoprefixer: {},
  },
};

After (v4):

// postcss.config.mjs
export default {
  plugins: {
    '@tailwindcss/postcss': {},
  },
};

If you use Vite, prefer the dedicated @tailwindcss/vite plugin instead of PostCSS. Create React App (react-scripts) hard-codes the old plugin in its webpack config, so postcss.config alone cannot fix it: a maintainer recommends ejecting or CRACO to swap in @tailwindcss/postcss (CRA is deprecated), or pin tailwindcss@3.

Also replace the @tailwind base; @tailwind components; @tailwind utilities; directives with @import "tailwindcss";.

Symptom

The CSS build (Vite, Next.js, webpack postcss-loader, Angular) fails with:

It looks like you're trying to use `tailwindcss` directly as a PostCSS plugin. The PostCSS plugin has moved to a separate package, so to continue using Tailwind CSS with PostCSS you'll need to install `@tailwindcss/postcss` and update your PostCSS configuration.

Typical trigger: npm install tailwindcss now resolves to v4, but postcss.config.js still lists tailwindcss: {} (the v3 setup most tutorials and older models produce).

Cause

Tailwind CSS v4.0 (2025-01-22) split the PostCSS plugin out of the tailwindcss package into @tailwindcss/postcss. Loading tailwindcss as a PostCSS plugin now throws this error. v4 also handles @import inlining and vendor prefixing itself, so postcss-import and autoprefixer are no longer needed.

Verify

Restart the dev server (PostCSS config is read at startup); the error is gone and utility classes render.

Sources

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