May 2026 - shadcn eject

When we added support for both Radix and Base UI, we needed a place for shared Tailwind utilities that both libraries depend on, e.g. custom variants like data-open: and data-closed: and utilities like no-scrollbar.

We also ran into a few bugs while working on RTL support that were easier to fix in one shared place rather than duplicating across every component.

So we created shadcn/tailwind.css. When you run init, it adds @import "shadcn/tailwind.css" to your global CSS file. It works just like other CSS imports such as tw-animate-css: a small dependency that is tree-shaken in production and resolved at build time.

If you prefer not to depend on the shadcn package for that CSS, we've added the shadcn eject command. It inlines shadcn/tailwind.css into your global CSS file and removes the shadcn dependency from your project.

pnpmnpmyarnbun
pnpm dlx shadcn@latest eject
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Before

Copy@import "tailwindcss";
@import "tw-animate-css";
@import "shadcn/tailwind.css";

After

Copy@import "tailwindcss";
@import "tw-animate-css";
/* ejected from shadcn@4.8.3 */
@theme inline {
  @keyframes accordion-down {
    from {
      height: 0;
    }
    to {
      height: var(
        --radix-accordion-content-height,
        var(--accordion-panel-height, auto)
      );
    }
  }
}
 
@custom-variant data-open {
  &:where([data-state="open"]),
  &:where([data-open]:not([data-open="false"])) {
    @slot;
  }
}

In a monorepo, run the command from the workspace that contains your components.json and global CSS file:

pnpmnpmyarnbun
pnpm dlx shadcn@latest eject -c packages/ui
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See the CLI documentation for more details.