💥 Breaking changes:
-
Set panel component's title heading level to 1 as default
We think the panel title should be the h1 in the majority of cases, so we made it the default.
If you have need to change the Panel component heading to something other than h1, you can do so by specifying
headingLevel: <number>
in the Nunjucks macro.(PR #967)
-
Remove deprecated
govuk-visually-hidden-focussable
class nameIn 1.1 release we added a new, correctly spelt
govuk-visually-hidden-focusable
CSS class and marked the old one as deprecated.To migrate you need to change
govuk-visually-hidden-focussable
togovuk-visually-hidden-focusable
in your codebase.(PR #968)
-
Remove name-based width logic from date-input component
In 1.1 release we removed styling which made the year field 4 characters wide, but was coupled to the field's name.
However, to avoid making this a breaking release, we added logic to automatically add the width classes based on the name.
We are now removing this behaviour. Instead, users need pass explicit classes for each field in the
items
object for the desired width of the input field.If you are using the Nunjucks macro, you need to provide a width class for each item, for example:
{{ govukDateInput({ "id": "dob", "name": "dob", "fieldset": { "legend": { "text": "What is your date of birth?" } }, "items": [ { "name": "day", "classes": "govuk-input--width-2" }, { "name": "month", "classes": "govuk-input--width-2" }, { "name": "year", "classes": "govuk-input--width-4" } ] }) }}
If you are using plain HTML, you need to manualy add a width-based class, such as
govuk-input--width-2
orgovuk-input--width-4
to the input fields.(PR #969)
🆕 New features:
-
Pull Request Title goes here
Description goes here (optional)
(PR #N)
🔧 Fixes:
-
Pull Request Title goes here
Description goes here (optional)
(PR #N)
🆕 New features:
-
Allow attributes on checkboxes/radios
You can now provide attributes on checkbox and radio items
attributes: { 'data-attribute': 'value' }
(PR #942)
🔧 Fixes:
-
Fix incorrect panel title bottom margin with optional text
Margin is only added when panel text is provided
(PR #936)
-
Remove template whitespace
Remove leading whitespace before the doctype in the page template. Some older browser will be forced into 'quirks mode' if there is whitespace before the doctype.
(PR #949)
-
Remove additional dotted outline from focussed buttons in Firefox
This was already the intended behaviour, but a minor typo (: rather than ::) meant that it wasn't being applied.
(PR #951)
-
Update date input component to use
display: inline-block
(PR #938) -
Change spacing relationship on default and small legends and hints (PR #940)
-
Adjust tag component padding to compensate for font spacing (PR #955)
🆕 New features:
-
Allow for optional divider between radio items
You can now provide a divider item (e.g "or") to separate items (PR #849)
-
Allow og:image meta tag url to be set independantly Image url for the opengraph image needs to be absolute and can now be overwritten by setting the
assetUrl
variable. (PR #847) -
Only underline the logo in the header on underline when users have overridden colours in their browser, rather than it appearing underlined all the time (PR #926)
-
Allow for optional hint for each radio and checkbox item
You can now pass a hint object (or add in html) to each radio and checkbox item to display the hint (PR #846)
-
Allow additional classes to be added to the radio and checkbox items
You can now provide
label: { classes: 'extra-class' }
to each item.(PR #880)
🔧 Fixes:
-
Replace conflicting
js-hidden
class used within the tabs component with a new modifier class. Because this class is defined and used within the JavaScript, no markup changes are required. (PR #916) -
Use
get-function
when calling a Sass function as passing a string to `call()`` is deprecated and will be illegal in Sass 4.0 (PR #919) -
Fix flash of unstyled content with conditional reveals (Radios and Checkboxes)
If the conditional reveal JavaScript is slow to execute it can result in showing the user their contents briefly which can be jarring.
(PR #885)
🔧 Fixes:
-
Update details behaviour to remove margin-bottom for all elements (PR #900)
-
Update internal padding of tab content in the tabs component (PR #886)
-
Fixes an issue where clicking the revealed content in browsers that do not support the native details element causes the details element to collapse. (PR #912)
-
Fixes an issue where clicking the revealed content within a details element toggles the aria-expanded attribute on the summary element and the aria-hidden attribute on the content element, causing them to get out of sync with the visible state of the component. (PR #912)
-
Fixes an issue where it's not possible to make any field that does not have the name ‘year’ use any other width than 2 characters (PR #908)
-
Fix undefined class displaying in date input (PR #913)
🆕 New features:
-
Add
govuk-visually-hidden-focusable
classAdds
.govuk-visually-hidden-focusable
and deprecates.govuk-visually-hidden-focussable
in order to fix the typo in the class name. Please consider updating your code as the next major release will remove the deprecated class.(PR #859)
-
Allow panel component title heading to be customisable.
You can now specify a heading level by providing
headingLevel: <number>
parameter. Default is2
. (PR #853) -
Update date input component
Allow the
name
andid
attributes to be passed individually for each input item.Rely on
classes
instead of item names to set the width of input items.Add default (day, month, year) date input items if no items are being specified
(PR #857)
-
The typography scale can now be converted from pixels to rem automatically, with pixels also being provided as a fallback for older browsers.
This feature is disabled by default - in order to use it you will need to set
$govuk-typography-use-rem: true
and ensure that$govuk-root-font-size
is set to the effective size of your root (html) element. For new projects, this should be the default of 16px so you don't have to do anything. For projects that use alphagov/govuk_template this should be 10px.The intention is to enable this by default in the next major version: alphagov#868
(PR #858)
🔧 Fixes:
-
Remove mistakenly applied 5px bottom margin from radio and checkbox labels. (PR #883)
-
Apply
display:block
to.govuk-main-wrapper
In IE11
main
element is set todisplay:inline
so padding and margins aren't applied. (PR #863)) -
Line-heights are now converted from pixels to relative 'unit-less' values in order to prevent issues when resizing text in the browser. (PR #837 and PR #848)
-
Add bottom margin to Tabs component All components (or outer layer components) have a bottom margin applied to them so spacing feels automatic. (PR #841)
-
Update Crown copyright link Update the Crown copyright link on the National Archives so we don't send users on an unnecessary redirect. (PR #824)
-
Fixes radio and checkbox labels extending full width of page (PR #821)
-
Prevent the exclamation mark in the warning text component from being selectable, which also excludes it when it is copied as part of a wider body of text (PR #856)
-
Add customised colours handling for warning text
By adding a border to this component, when a user customises their colour settings they will still see a circle even if the background is removed. (PR #852)
-
Fixes a bug where the phase banner incorrectly uses a font-size of 19px when global styles are enabled (PR #877)
-
Add outlines to Radios and Checkboxes for customised colour users
Now when a user customises their colours, they should see a focus state on both Radios and Checkboxes. (PR #854)
-
Add outline to tag for customised colour users
Now when a user customises their colours, the tag component still keeps it's meaning. (PR #855)
-
Define size of table in
px
rather thanem
This brings the styling of tables inline with rest of GOV.UK Frontend which no longer uses
em
for measurements.This change very slightly increases the padding of table cells on mobile viewport as the use of
em
meant the font size set in the table was used to calculate padding.padding-top
andpadding-bottom
of cells increase by 1.5px respectively which very slightly increases the height of the table on mobile.In the unlikely case that your UI has a dependency on tables being a certain fixed height of mobile viewport, this change might affect you.
(PR #845)
-
Fix header component's reliance on markup whitespace
We have had issues where the header component can render incorrectly if the markup contains whitespace, for example if it has been pretty printed.
This changes the header component to use float based columns similar to how the grid system works.
(PR #884)
🏠 Internal:
-
Fix Design System url in package READMEs and review app (PR #812)
-
Update back-link example to show default usage doesn't need
text
parameter (PR #819) -
Lowercase component names (PR #822)
-
Tidy up some package.json fields to help contributors and users (PR #827)
-
Fix failing Heroku app with Node 10.5.0 Revert to pinning node version in package json (PR #833)
-
Format YAML and Nunjucks consistently (PR #830)
🆕 New features:
-
Add default text for back-link component (PR #793)
-
Add default container class to the header component (PR #807)
-
Add tabs component – thanks to @adamsilver and @trevorsaint for contributing (PR #776)
🔧 Fixes:
- Reduce margin-bottom on the hint when following a default or small labe
This reduces the margin-bottom of the hint by 5px after a default
<label>
or<label class="govuk-label--s">
. (PR #806)
🏠 Internal:
-
Remove instructions to login with npm, which is no longer required (PR #795)
-
Update docs with the assistive technology we support (PR #800)
-
Update docs about installing fonts (PR #802)
-
Update browser support matrix Remove Windows Phone Update IE 8-10 to functional and IE 11 to compliant (PR #803
-
Add notice about the use of
html
arguments in Nunjucks macros for production (PR #785) -
Add CHANGELOG_TEMPLATE to make changelogs easier for new contributors (PR #798)
-
Update package
README
(PR #804) -
Update JavaScript installation instructions (PR #808)
This release changes the name of package. It's now published as govuk-frontend
on npm
.
💥 Breaking changes:
-
The default build of the GOV.UK Frontend JavaScript now does not initialize all components automatically.
This allows you to initialize only the components you need, and gives you finer control over when the JavaScript for GOV.UK Frontend runs.
To migrate your project you need to change
<script src="{path-to-govuk-frontend}/all.js"></script>
to
<script src="{path-to-govuk-frontend}/all.js"></script> <script>window.GOVUKFrontend.initAll()</script>
Now, if you only want to initialize a specific component you can now do so by:
<script src="{path-to-govuk-frontend}/all.js"></script> <script> var Button = window.GOVUKFrontend.Button new Button(document).init() </script>
Note: If you are importing JavaScript with a bundler, this is not likely to change anything for you. (PR #759)
-
Consistently structure the Details and Button component, so that they can be instantiated the same as the other components.
If you're using
GOVUKFrontend.initAll()
you do not need to make any changes, otherwise you need to change<script> new Button().init() new Details().init() </script>
to
<script> new Button(document).init() var $details = document.querySelectorAll('details') nodeListForEach($details, function ($detail) { new Details($detail).init() }) </script>
(PR #761)
-
All sass-mq settings have now been made private. We are now exposing new settings to allow you to customise breakpoints and responsive behaviour:
$govuk-breakpoints
- Map of breakpoint definitions$govuk-show-breakpoints
- Whether to show the current breakpoint in the top right corner$govuk-ie8-breakpoint
- Breakpoint to rasterize to for IE8
If you are overriding any settings prefixed with
$mq-
in your application you will need to update to the use the new$govuk-
prefixed settings.(PR #748)
-
Font settings have been renamed:
$govuk-font-stack
has been renamed to$govuk-font-family
$govuk-font-stack-tabular
has been renamed to$govuk-font-family-tabular
$govuk-font-stack-print
has been renamed to$govuk-font-family-print
(PR #748)
-
Spacing has been refactored. You will need to update Sass that currently uses GOV.UK Frontend spacing:
- Instead of
$govuk-spacing-scale-*
use
govuk-spacing(*)
where
*
is the number on the spacing scale. The scale itself has remained the same so that$govuk-spacing-scale-3
corresponds togovuk-spacing(3)
. This change allows us to control the error messaging when incorrect values are used and to deprecate variables. The values of spacing variables can also be overridden by consumers.- Instead of:
@include govuk-responsive-margin($govuk-spacing-responsive-2, "bottom"); @include govuk-responsive-padding($govuk-spacing-responsive-2, "bottom");
use
@include govuk-responsive-margin(2, "bottom"); @include govuk-responsive-padding(2, "bottom");
This change, again, allows us to control the error messaging since spacing variables are not exposed directly. Also, the spacing scale itself has not changed so that
$govuk-spacing-responsive-2
corresponds to2
when passed to the padding and margin mixins.This PR also updates tests and sass-docs of spacing variables and helpers.
Additionally, this PR hardcodes the value of
$govuk-gutter
, see PR for more details.(PR #779)
-
Remove
pageStart
block from template, as could result in rendering issues in older IE. (PR #765) -
You should no longer call the
mq
mixin directly - you should replace any calls to it from your own code withgovuk-media-query
which accepts the same arguments. All mixins and settings that start withmq-
should be considered private – they could be removed in the future without notice. (PR #763) -
All of the shorthand 'font' mixins (e.g.
govuk-font-bold-80
,govuk-font-regular-tabular-19
), have been removed and replaced with calls to a new mixingovuk-font
. If you are using these mixins in your application you will need to update your code to callgovuk-font
instead.(PR #772)
-
The font maps are no longer as individual variables (e.g.
$govuk-font-80
) - they are all now part of one single$govuk-typography-scale
map. Instead of passing font maps togovuk-typography-responsive
you should now pass the desktop font size (e.g.govuk-typography-responsive(80)
orgovuk-typography-responsive($size: 80)
.(PR #772)
-
All organisation variables (e.g.
$govuk-cabinet-office
) have been moved into a single$govuk-colours-organisations
map. If you need to use an organisation colour in your own code, you should use the newgovuk-organisation-colour
function:.element { color: govuk-organisation-colour(cabinet-office); }
Note that this function will return 'web-safe' colours by default. You can pass $websafe: false to get the non-websafe colour.
-
The colour palette variables (e.g.
$govuk-green
) have been moved into a new single$govuk-colours
map. If you need to reference a colour within your application you should use the newgovuk-colour
function:.element { color: govuk-colour("green"); }
Tints (
$govuk-green-50
,$govuk-green-25
) have been removed from the colour palette. -
A number of the colours have been renamed to use more neutral names:
mauve
→light-purple
fuchsia
→bright-purple
baby-pink
→light-pink
mellow-red
→bright-red
grass-green
→light-green
-
The 'circle shape' object (
.govuk-circle
) which was used by the warning text component's '!' icon has been removed and thegovuk-warning-text__icon
class has been updated to make it circular without the need for another class.(PR #782)
-
Removal of
govuk-prose-scope
We don't have confidence that the prose scope is well understood – without further research / better documentation it's safer to remove it for now.If you are currently using prose-scope, you should revert to applying classes to individual headings, lists and hr elements. In version 0.0.29-alpha release we have added the option to enable global link and paragraph styles.
If you're using a recent version of the Private Beta Prototype kit, this is enabled by default.
(PR #778)
-
Make override classes consistently verbose Based on feedback from the community we have made the override classes consistent where previously some where verbose and some where shorthand.
We've made the decision to remove the 'r' for responsive, this was hard to remember and users found this confusing.
To migrate you will need to replace any instances of:
.govuk-!-f-{size}
with.govuk-!-font-size-{size}
.govuk-!-w-{weight}
with.govuk-!-font-weight-{weight}
.govuk-!-m{direction}-r{scale}
with.govuk-!-margin-{direction}-{scale}
.govuk-!-p{direction}-r{scale}
with.govuk-!-padding-{direction}-{scale}
For example if you were using:
.govuk-!-mb-r5
you would need to change this to.govuk-!-margin-bottom-5
.govuk-!-f-24
you would need to change this to.govuk-!-font-size-24
See the original Pull Request for the full list of classes before and after.
(PR #786)
🔧 Fixes:
-
Fix govuk-equilateral-height function usage in shape-arrow helper (PR ##766)
-
The
<label>
element will now be omitted for form controls where no label text or html is provided. If you call the label component directly whilst passing neither text nor html, no HTML will be outputted. (PR #740) -
Add
govuk-main-wrapper
to<main>
element by default. (PR #742) -
Use relative imports whenever a component imports another component, to allow for cases where users don't want to add the components folder itself to their nunjucks paths. (PR #743)
-
Update JavaScript global namespace from 'all' to 'GOVUKFrontend', we intend to allow users to initialize components from this namespace. (PR #747)
-
Tabular numbers will now correctly use the
$govuk-font-family-tabular
setting rather than being hardcoded to use NTA tabular. (PR #748) -
Prevents focus from being lost to the inline SVGs in the header (the crown) and footer (the OGL logo) by marking them as non-focusable elements (PR #774)
-
Use the correct class name in bold label example (govuk-label--s rather than govuk-label--bold) (PR #784)
-
Update table of arguments for each component to ensure they're accurate. (PR #769)
-
Add explicit dependency on colour maps (PR #790)
🆕 New features:
- Components are now available to use from the
GOVUKFrontend
global. You can now initialize individual components like so:
<script>
var Radios = window.GOVUKFrontend.Radios
new Radios(document).init()
</script>
(PR #759)
-
Add
beforeContent
block to the template, for content that does not belong inside<main>
element. For example: Back links. (PR #742) -
Most of the settings, helpers and tools layers is now documented using Sassdoc, with variables, functions and mixins being marked as private or public. (PR #748) (PR #762)
-
Most of the settings can now be overridden in your application (they are now marked as !default) (PR #748)
🏠 Internal:
-
Fix review application templates to give them the correct HTML structure. (PR #742)
-
Improve release steps (PR #745)
-
Reintroduce mistakenly deleted HTML5Shiv required for IE8 (PR #749)
-
Fix issues with canvas colour bleeding into main review page (PR #741)
-
Add header with service name and navigation variant to header README (PR #781)
💥 Breaking changes:
-
The
govuk-file-url
helper has been renamed to togovuk-image-url
. If you are using this function in your own styles you will need to update calls to it. (PR #726) -
The
$govuk-global-images
variable has been renamed to to$govuk-images-path
. If you are overriding this variable or using it in your own styles you will need to update your code to use the new variable name. (PR #726)
🔧 Fixes:
-
Namespacing SCSS exports with 'govuk' prefix to avoid clashes with exports in applications consuming GOV.UK Frontend (PR #732)
-
Fixes a bug whereby print styles were being 'rasterized' into the screen styles when generating the IE8 stylesheet (this is a bug in sass-mq, and has also been raised upstream – sass-mq/sass-mq#111). (PR #726)
-
Removed some duplicated CSS rules from the outputted CSS (PR #727)
-
Fixes a bug in IE8 where the button component did not have a shadow, by rendering the shadow using a border for IE8 specifically – IE8 does not support box-shadow (PR #737)
🆕 New features:
-
Change font delivery method from Base64 encoded strings to serving WOFF2, WOFF and EOT files as separate HTTP requests. You will need to ensure that you are serving the fonts from the assets folder as part of your application. (PR #726)
-
The font-face is now using
font-display: fallback
. This means that the fallback font (Arial) will be used if NTA doesn't download within 100ms. The browser will then swap to NTA as long as it loads within the short swap period. (PR #726) -
You can now override the helpers used to generate image and font urls, for example if you are using sass-rails' asset-pipeline functionality. You can do this by setting
$govuk-image-url-function
and$govuk-font-url-function
to the name of the function(s) you wish to use. Seesrc/settings/_assets.scss
for more information and examples. (PR #733) -
Add boilerplate template, which is a Nunjucks replacement for GOV.UK Template. (PR #731)
🏠 Internal:
-
Improve release steps, based on doing a release (PR #725)
-
Fix majority of vulnerabilities flagged by
npm audit
(PR #712)
🔧 Fixes:
-
Update component readme files content (PR #704)
-
Fix panel body element rendering with no text (PR #707)
🆕 New features:
-
Add override classes to set
display
property toblock
,inline
andinline-block
(PR #694) -
Add option to set CSS display property for govuk-shape-arrow mixin (PR #701)
-
Add header component (PR #695)
-
Add inset text component (PR #709)
-
Add ability to pass explicit name value to checkbox items (PR #719)
🏠 Internal:
-
Run tests in pre-release (PR #706)
-
Fix CI timeouts: run Jest single thread in TravisCI (PR #712)
-
Ensure 'after' tests are not ignored (PR #720)
💥 Breaking changes:
-
Restructure project to enable it to be published as a single package
The new project structure matches our ITCSS inspired layers and is published as a single package as
@govuk-frontend/frontend
.You will need to:
- Update your npm dependencies to use
@govuk-frontend/frontend
- Update your SCSS import paths to match the new package name and folder structure.
If you're importing everything at once:
@import "node_modules/@govuk-frontend/frontend/all";
If you're importing individual components:
@import "node_modules/@govuk-frontend/frontend/components/button/button";
See the main README for up-to-date installation instructions.
(PR #680)
- Update your npm dependencies to use
-
Error Messages and Hints have been moved out Label and Fieldset components.
They are no longer nested within the label or legend. They are associated with the input or with the fieldset using aria-describedby.
Hint has been made into a new component similar to Error Message.
If you're using markup, you will need to update the old markup:
<label class="govuk-c-label" for="national-insurance-number"> National Insurance number <span class="govuk-c-label__hint"> It’s on your National Insurance card, benefit letter, payslip or P60. For example, ‘QQ 12 34 56 C’. </span> <span class="govuk-c-error-message"> Error message goes here </span> </label> <input class="govuk-c-input govuk-c-input--error" id="national-insurance-number" name="national-insurance-number" type="text">
With the new markup:
<label class="govuk-label" for="national-insurance-number"> National Insurance number </label> <span id="national-insurance-number-hint" class="govuk-hint"> It’s on your <i>National Insurance card</i>, benefit letter, payslip or P60. For example, ‘QQ 12 34 56 C’. </span> <span id="national-insurance-number-error" class="govuk-error-message"> Error message goes here </span> <input class="govuk-input govuk-input--error" id="national-insurance-number" name="test-name-3" type="text" aria-describedby="national-insurance-number-hint national-insurance-number-error">
If you're using macros:
The fieldset macro no longer accepts
legendHintText
orlegendHintHtml
- these parameters are now passed to the hint component which acceptstext
orhtml
. The date-input, checkboxes and radios components have been updated to use the new Hint component.The label macro no longer accepts
hintText
orhintHtml
- these parameters are now passed to the hint component which acceptstext
orhtml
. The file-upload, input, select and textarea components have been updated to use the new Hint component.For example, this example macro call for a File Upload component:
{{ govukFileUpload({ "id": "file-upload", "name": "photo", "label": { "text": "Upload your photo", "hintText": "Your photo may be in your Pictures, Photos, Downloads or Desktop folder." } }) }}
would now be:
{{ govukFileUpload({ "id": "file-upload", "name": "photo", "label": { "text": "Upload your photo" }, "hint": { "text": "Your photo may be in your Pictures, Photos, Downloads or Desktop folder." } }) }}
For more examples of the new markup and Nunjucks macros see the GOV.UK Design System Question Pages pattern
(PR #681)
-
The date-input component now sets an explicit
group
role on the fieldset to force JAWS 18 to announce the error message and hint. (PR #681) -
The label component macro now accepts an
isPageHeading
argument which determines whether the label itself should be wrapped in an h1:<h1 class="govuk-label-wrapper"> <label class="govuk-label">What is your National Insurance number?</label> </h1>
The
.govuk-label-wrapper
removes the margins from the heading so that the presence of theh1
has no effect on the styling of the label.(PR #684)
-
Added new modifier classes for labels to allow you to create a label that visually corresponds to the equivalent heading class (for example, a
.govuk-label--xl
will have the same font size and weight as a.govuk-heading-xl
)(PR #684)
-
The arguments for a fieldset's legend have been rolled up into an object. For example, the following macro call:
{{ govukFieldset({ legendText: "What is your date of birth?" }) }}
would now be:
{{ govukFieldset({ legend: { text: "What is your date of birth?" } }) }}
The
legend
object can also accept newclasses
andarguments
Components that use the fieldset component have been updated to reflect these changes.
(PR #684)
-
The fieldset component has a new parameter legend.isPageHeading, which defines whether the legend text should be wrapped in an h1:
<legend class="govuk-fieldset__legend"> <h1 class="govuk-fieldset__heading">Have you changed your name?</h1> </legend>
The
.govuk-fieldset__heading
class ensures that the<h1>
inherits its properties from the legend, so that the presence of theh1
has no effect on its styling.(PR #684)
-
Added new modifier classes for legends to allow you to create a legend that visually corresponds to the equivalent heading class (for example, a
.govuk-fieldset__legend--xl
will have the same font size and weight as a.govuk-heading-xl
)(PR #684)
-
Remove -c -o -h layer prefixes (PR #644) In user research and in feedback from Private Beta partners we learned that users didn't really understand what -o, -c and -h prefixes stand for or why they're useful.
They also introduced additional cognitive load when composing classes, having to remember which suffix the classname contains.
If you're using markup, you will need to:
- Remove -o, -c and -h prefixes from class names in your markup
For example, change:
<button class="govuk-c-button">Save and continue</button>
Into:
<button class="govuk-button">Save and continue</button>
-
Simplify grid syntax and introduce grid-row and column mixins.
Based on user research feedback we have simplified the grid classes to a more concise naming structure.
You will need to:
- Change grid class names in your markup
For example, change:
<div class="govuk-o-grid"> <div class="govuk-o-grid__item govuk-o-grid__item--two-thirds"> <!-- content --> </div> <div class="govuk-o-grid__item govuk-o-grid__item--one-third"> <!-- content --> </div> </div>
Into:
<div class="govuk-grid-row"> <div class="govuk-grid-column-two-thirds"> <!-- content --> </div> <div class="govuk-grid-column-one-third"> <!-- content --> </div> </div>
We have also introduced two mixins to help generate additional or custom grid styles and widths, see original pull request for usage.
(PR #665)
🔧 Fixes:
-
Remove redundant font-family declaration from the button component – this will also fix an issue where the button uses New Transport when printed instead of falling back to the print stack as expected. (PR #650)
-
Reinstate focus outline for radios and checkboxes on IE8 (PR #670)
-
Fix section break styles when used with GOV.UK Elements (PR #682)
-
Remove
-webkit-tap-highlight-color
from links (PR #692) -
Remove normalize from /dist builds (PR #699)
🆕 New features:
-
We're now using ES6 Modules and rollup to distribute our JavaScript. (PR #652)
-
Checkboxes and Radios conditional reveal (PR #616)
-
Vendor-in SassMQ functionality, write tests and remove external dependency (PR #657)
-
Focus Error Summary on window load (PR #671)
-
Opt-in Global
<a>
and<p>
styles (PR #658)Global styles are not included by default.
This is to avoid the risk of these globals conflicting with any pre-existing globals, for example in GOV.UK Elements or GOV.UK Template.
Hovever, we do include them in the GOV.UK Prototype Kit to speed up prototyping.
To include global styles, you can set
$govuk-global-styles
variable totrue
.
🏠 Internal:
- Remove unused step in travis.yml file (PR #690)
- Update publishing docs (PR #651)
- Wrap
app.css
in conditional comments in review app layout (PR #653) - Fix missing code highlight and remove duplicate layout (PR #663)
- Exclude test related files from
dist/
andpackages/
copy task (PR #662) - Add test to check if Sass in packages compiles correctly after the
build:packages
task (PR #669) - Disable code syntax highlighting in IE8 (PR #675)
- Simplify contents of the
dist/
folder (PR #673) - Added tests to ensure that the settings, helpers and tools layers do not output CSS.
Fixes incomplete release from packages/
and dist/
in 0.0.27-alpha release.
Missing files were:
globals/tools/_compatibility.scss
globals/tools/_ie8.scss
globals/settings/_compatibility.scss
globals/settings/_ie8.scss
💥 Breaking changes:
-
Removed an (undocumented) modifier
govuk-c-radio__item--inline
which made radio buttons inline, in favour of a new block-level modifiergovuk-c-radios--inline
which will automatically make all the radio buttons within that block inline. (PR #607) -
Prefix
$global-images
variable (PR #615) -
Simplified how we build stylesheets that target old versions of IE:
- Removed styles that target IE6 and IE7
- Replaced IE mixins with a simpler version for targeting IE8 specifically without having to specify versions
- Add a new tool mixin to easily exclude styles when targeting IE8
- Automatically set $mq-responsive based on the value of the $govuk-is-ie8 variable.
If you are building an IE8 stylesheet for your application you'll need to update it to reference the new variable $govuk-is-ie8 – see the README for details. (PR #631)
-
Rename captionSize table argument to captionClasses (PR #643)
🔧 Fixes:
- Link styles, as well as links within the back-link, breadcrumbs, button,
error summary, footer and skip link components defend against the
a:link:focus
selector in GOV.UK Template, which was overriding focussed links to always use the dark blue link colour for text. (PR #609) - Fix table captions to allow heading classes (PR #633)
🆕 New features:
- Add
govuk-main-wrapper--l
a variant of the main page wrapper to use when a design does not include back links, breadcrumbs or phase banners (PR #602) - Added a new
.govuk-link--text-colour
modifier to make links use the same colour as the text. (PR #609) - Introduce new mixins for link styles (muted links, text links) and update the existing link classes to use them (PR #609)
- Introduce a new 'compatibility' mixin and settings to allow us to selectively include styles that 'counter' styles from the existing products (e.g. GOV.UK Template) (PR #609)
- The back link, breadcrumbs and skip link have been updated to use the text style link mixin (PR #609)
- Add limited width inputs (PR #626)
- Add details polyfill. This is automatically initialised in the main JS. (PR #610)
- Add button polyfill. This is automatically initialised in the main JS. #572)
Note: Our JavaScript work is ongoing. In the next release of GOV.UK Frontend both of our script will be modularised and split into common functions. This will allow you to use the polyfills in your bundler/build pipeline. For this reason, you might want to wait until the next release before adding these polyfill scripts into your project.
🏠 Internal:
-
Update check script for new components and tweak docs (PR #589)
-
Listen for development server on different port for tests (PR #622)
-
Fix date-input default example (PR #623)
-
Ensure we're testing error-messages in date-input (PR #625)
-
Explain npm link (PR #624)
-
Make Sass imports less broad (PR #617)
-
Update project README with user research findings (PR #617)
-
Update component READMEs to use
import
statement (PR #615) -
Use promisify util instead of manual method (PR #639)
💥 Breaking changes:
- The error summary component now has a default bottom margin (PR #583)
- Nest components correctly (PR #584)
🔧 Fixes:
- Make section break line 1px instead of 2px (PR #585)
🆕 New features:
- Add footer component (PR #569)
🏠 Internal:
- Update pre-release step to check for new components (PR #574)
- Ensure render function does not have undefined object (PR #587)
- Fix components relying on global builds (PR #588)
💥 Breaking changes:
- The colour variable
$govuk-fuschia
has been replaced with a new variable with the correct spelling ($govuk-fuchsia
) – thanks to @charlesrt for reporting. (PR #571)
🆕 New features:
- The input macro now accepts a
type
which allows you to override the default type="text" (PR #568)
🔧 Fixes:
- The transparent outline has been removed from the button, as it already has a transparent border which is visible when overriding colours in the browser (PR #552)
- Redundant duplication on the start button variant has been removed as it is inherited from the main .govuk-c-button class (PR #552)
- A fix to remove a black border from buttons in IE7 has been removed as we are not targeting IE7 for GOV.UK Frontend (PR #552)
- The date input component now sets
type="number"
andpattern="[0-9]*"
to match the previous implementation in Elements (PR #568)
🏠 Internal:
- The logic to determine button text colour automatically has been removed and replaced with a new variable $govuk-button-text-colour (PR #552)
- The button component now uses the focusable mixin (PR #552)
- The button component Sass has been restructured so that e.g. pseudo-selectors are consistently nested within their parents (PR #552)
- Fixes for the release process (PR #567)
- Add HTML5-shiv to review app (PR #575)
💥 Breaking changes:
- Namespace existing mixins and functions ( PR #557)
- The class
.govuk-section-break__visible
has been renamed to.govuk-section-break--visible
as it is a modifier, not an element. (PR #547) - Simplify
src/
folder structure, remove tree and string manipulations from gulp tasks (PR #545)
🆕 New features:
- A new variable
$govuk-input-border-colour
has been introduced to define the border colour for inputs. The Input, Select and Textarea components have been updated to use it. (PR #551)
🔧 Fixes:
-
Removes media query display on body from compiled CSS (PR #560)
-
Fieldset legends now correctly use 'full black' text colour when printed (PR #544)
-
Radio and Checkbox components now explicitly use currentColor for their borders, rather than relying on inheriting it (PR #551)
🏠 Internal:
- The 'prose scope' has been updated to extend only placeholder classes. The corresponding classes the prose scope extends have been updated to provide a placeholder class and separately create the concrete class. This allows us to be specific about which occurrences of the class are meant to be extended. (PR #550)
- The sass-lint config has been updated to prevent the use of
@extend
with concrete classes. (PR #550) - Release process has been streamlined with fewer steps (PR #553)
- Update
govuk-section-break__visible
new class namegovuk-section-break--visible
in the review app's Typography page. (PR #566)
💥 Breaking changes:
- Remove Cookie-banner and Previous-next components (PR #488, PR #523)
- Remove unused colours from the 'applied' colour palette:
(PR #525)
$govuk-panel-colour
$govuk-canvas-colour
$govuk-highlight-colour
$govuk-page-colour
$govuk-discovery-colour
$govuk-alpha-colour
$govuk-beta-colour
$govuk-live-colour
$govuk-error-background
$govuk-proposition-border
$govuk-proposition-active-nav
$govuk-footer-background
$govuk-footer-border-top
$govuk-footer-link
$govuk-footer-link-hover
$govuk-footer-text
- Rename
$govuk-button-colour-darken-15
to$govuk-button-shadow-colour
to avoid tying it to a particular colour. (PR #525)
🆕 New features:
- Button hover colour now has a semantic Sass name: $govuk-button-hover-colour (PR #406)
- A new link variant has been added which removes the visited state, for cases where distinguishing between visited and unvisited links is not helpful (PR #446)
- The responsive spacing and typography mixins will now throw an error if you try to use them with anything other than a spacing or font map respectively. (PR #447)
- Add thematic break to typography and prose scope. This class is added to an
<hr>
, adds margin (xl, l and m). There is also an option to make the<hr>
border visible or invisible. (PR #483)
🔧 Fixes:
- Remove double margin from Date input component (PR #451)
- Add top margin for nested lists (PR #464)
- Remove regular font weight from link styles (PR #469)
- Remove redundant 'govuk-c-border' div from the details component (PR #481)
- Add
govuk-c-select--error
modifier class to the select component instead of relying ongovuk-c-input--error
(PR #506) - Allow error message and hint text to be passed to a select component without requiring a label parameter (PR #506)
- Define size of inputs etc in
px
rather thanem
. (PR #491) - Remove scope=row attribute from non-th elements (PR 527)
- Form components and fieldset now include
govuk-o-form-group
that sets left border for errors and a bottom margin. Add example of form errors to preview app (PR #591)
🏠 Internal:
- Replace Mocha/Chai with Jest, re-enable task tests, add back-link component. Special thanks to @htmlandbacon and @tyom for sharing their approaches. (PR #455)
- Add example of nested lists to typography and prose scope in review app (PR #464)
- Add tests for tag component (PR #457)
- Add tests for button component (PR #461)
- Add tests for breadcrumbs component (PR #461)
- Add tests for details component (PR #480)
- Add tests for warning text component (PR #479)
- Add tests for table component (PR #472)
- Add tests for error-summary component (PR #489)
- Add tests for radios component (PR #476)
- Add tests for input component (PR #478)
- Add tests for date-input component (PR #495)
- Add tests for textarea component (PR #497)
- Add tests for panel component (PR #500)
- Add tests for skip-link component (PR #498)
- Add tests for file-upload component (PR #504)
- Add tests for error-message component (PR #507)
- Add tests for phase-banner component (PR #505)
- Add tests for label component component (PR #508)
- Add tests for fieldset component (PR #509)
- Add tests for select component (PR #506)
- Add tests for checkboxes component (PR #513)
- Add tests to make sure the examples pages render without errors #523
- Add correct links to the guidance in the Design System in component READMEs (PR #528)
💥 Breaking changes:
- The link styles in the core layer no longer style
a
elements directly, but instead provide agovuk-link
class which you will need to apply to links individually. (PR #427) - The link component has been removed from Frontend as the link styles have been moved to the core (PR #431)
- Rename
legal-text
argument accepted bylegal-text
component totext
(PR #431) - Rename
legal-text
component towarning-text
(PR #431)
🆕 New features:
- The prose scope has been extended to style links, which means links within the
scope do not need the
govuk-link
class applied. (PR #427) - The muted link variant from the link component is now available as a core
class (
govuk-link--muted
). (PR #427)
🔧 Fixes:
- The error summary component allows users to pass HTML for an entry in the list again. (PR #428)
- Error list entries in the error summary component no longer get wrapped in
links when no
href
is provided. (PR #428) - Remove redundant 'resets' for link print styles (PR #427)
- The back link, breadcrumbs, error summary, previous / next and skip link components have been updated to include explicit link styling, as they previously relied on the global link styles. (PR #427)
- Adjust
warning-text
icon by 1px for New Transport
🏠 Internal:
- Add prose scope example (PR #429)
- Links within the review app and the examples have been updated to use the
govuk-link
class. (PR #427) - Improve documentation around publishing (PR #430)
- Improve documentation around contributing (PR #433)
- Remove readme content from review app (PR #482)
Skipped 0.0.20-alpha due to difficulties with publishing.
💥 Breaking changes:
- Rename ‘govuk-body-lede’ to ‘govuk-body-lead’. (PR #405)
- Pluralise radio component (PR #388)
- Pluralise checkbox component (PR #384)
🆕 New features:
- Add
width
classes, which were based onform-control
classes that were specific to form control in Elements. (PR #413)
🔧 Fixes:
- Make buttons 40px high including box shadow (PR #416)
- Fix focus outline style in Chrome and Safari (PR #414)
- Remove contributors list from template, fix template markup and update README files (PR #403)
- Generate breadcrumb chevrons using pseudo-elements (PR #407)
- Fix undefined classes in date input macro (PR #410)
- Add documentation for typography helpers / core, simplify syntax (PR #400)
- Add adjacent styles for headings after lists (PR #408)
- Allow line height to be overridden in typography helpers (PR #404)