Is is possible to exclude the base layer?

[arthurmeeh]

See title. I only want the utility classes but not the html element style overrides.

[wongjn]

As per the documentation:

Disabling Preflight

If you'd like to completely disable Preflight—perhaps because you're integrating Tailwind into an existing project or you'd prefer to define your own base styles—you can do so by importing only the parts of Tailwind that you need.

By default, this is what @import "tailwindcss"; injects:

@layer theme, base, components, utilities;

@import "tailwindcss/theme.css" layer(theme);
@import "tailwindcss/preflight.css" layer(base);
@import "tailwindcss/utilities.css" layer(utilities);

To disable Preflight, simply omit its import while keeping everything else:

 @layer theme, base, components, utilities;

 @import "tailwindcss/theme.css" layer(theme);
-@import "tailwindcss/preflight.css" layer(base);
 @import "tailwindcss/utilities.css" layer(utilities);