CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

Unreleased

💥 Breaking changes:

• Pull Request Title goes here

  Description goes here (optional)

  To migrate you need to change: X

  (PR #N)

🆕 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)

• Fix wrapping of long lines of text in summary list

  Thanks to @MoJ-Longbeard for raising the issue.

  (PR #1169)

2.6.0 (Feature release)

🆕 New features:

• Enable autocomplete attributes for input components.

  You can now set the autocomplete attribute on input, date input and textarea components using the component macros.

  This was already possible to do with the attributes option but this change highlights the new WCAG 2.1 success criteria Identify Input Purpose which "is to ensure that the purpose of a form input collecting information about the user can be programmatically determined, so that user agents can extract and present this purpose to users using different modalities".

  See autofill for the full list of attributes that can be used.

  (PR #1146)

🔧 Fixes:

• Include Accordion component in global namespace

  Accordion component was not exported and was therefore unavailable in global namespace

  (PR #1157)

• Fix Checkboxes and Radios targeting selectors outside it's scope

  Thanks to @andysellick and @bilbof for helping us with this issue.

  (PR #1156)

• Fixes styling of the accordion component when there is no JavaScript or it has been turned off

  Thanks @dankmitchell for reporting this issue (#1130)

  (PR #1149)

• Remove hover state for accordion sections on mobile

  (PR #1148)

• Fix container not being centered in IE8

  Since the header and the footer component use this container it also fixes centering for these components.

  (PR #1147)

• Make gutters in the header consistent with the grid

  This means that the header will now line up with the grid.

  Thanks to @edwardhorsford for raising this issue.

  (PR #1144)

2.5.1 (Fix release)

🔧 Fixes:

• Update summary list to simplify actions

  Only output actions in a list when there's multiple actions.

  (PR #1131)

2.5.0 (Feature release)

🆕 New features:

• Accordion component 🎉

  Contributed by @frankieroberto, as well as @injms, @hannalaakso, @joelanman and others.

  The accordion component lets users show and hide sections of related content on a page.

  For more information see guidance.

  (PR #958)

• Add desktop specific grid column widths

  This allow you to define different grid behaviour for the tablet and desktop breakpoints. For example, you can make a column two-thirds on desktop but expand to full-width on smaller tablet sized screens.

  (PR #1094)

• Add summary list component

  This component was initially developed to allow us to build the 'check your answers' pattern.

  It is mostly the same as in the original pattern with some notable differences:

  • On smaller screens it wraps by default
  • It's possible to have multiple actions

  (PR #1065)

🔧 Fixes:

• Update visually hidden class to fix ordering issue in VoiceOver OSX

  We have fixed an issue in VoiceOver OSX where using the govuk-visually-hidden class in links would result in the text being announced out of order.

  We also now recommend to use aria-label or aria-labelledby where appropriate.

  Thanks to @stevenaproctor and the accessibility team at HMRC for letting us know about this issue.

  (PR #1109)

• Improve rendering in older Internet Explorer

  Added a meta tag to ensure that older IE versions always render with the correct rendering engine

  (PR #1119)

2.4.1 (fix release)

🔧 Fixes:

• Remove unused hint, error message and label imports from the Character Count component

  (PR #1087)

• Warning text component, remove negative margin left and reduce padding left to match.

  (PR #1084)

• Add 5px bottom margin to list items within lists that do not have bullets or numbers on mobile breakpoints to make each item visually distinct.

  (PR #1078)

• Add error message attributes to all components

  (PR #1086)

2.4.0 (Feature release)

🆕 New features:

• Scroll to label or legend when linked from error summary

  When users click links in the error summary, the corresponding label or legend will now be moved to the top of the viewport, rather than the input. This means that the context for the input remains on-screen.

  (PR #1056)

• Label or legend are announced for NVDA users when navigating to an input from the error summary

  (PR #1056)

• Allow form group classes on date, file upload, input, select and textarea

  All remaining form groups should allow additional classes, like with radios and checkboxes

  (PR #1059)

🔧 Fixes:

• Remove implicit dependency on Element for classList

  (PR #1063)

• Single field with error should have 'aria-describeby' attribute

  Although we discourage using checkboxes without fieldsets, this fix ensures that if there are no fieldset then the aria-describeby will still be usable by screenreaders by adding the element ids to the checkbox input elements 'aria-describeby' attribute.

  (PR #1054)

2.3.0 (Feature release)

🆕 New features:

• Add important parameter to visually hidden sass mixins

  Optional parameter added to govuk-visually-hidden and govuk-visually-hidden-focusable mixins (defaults to true)

  (PR #1037)

• Add support for attributes on table cells

  Can now use the familiar attrubutes: {} pattern to add various attributes such as id or data-attr to cells within tables

  (PR #1045)

• Allow form group classes on radios and checkboxes

  We now provide a way to add classes to the radio and checkbox form-group wrapper

  (PR #1043)

🔧 Fixes:

• Fix anchor links in tabs component panels

  (PR #1031)

• Fix IE8 support in builds in the dist/ folder

  (PR #1035)

2.2.0 (Feature release)

🆕 New features:

• Allow classes on table header and row cells

  Optional classes attribute can now be used on table header and row cell item in the Nunjucks macro

  (PR #1015)

• Add character count component

  (PR #959)

🔧 Fixes:

• Apply max-width to the <select> element

  The <select> element's width is governed by the widths of its <option>'s.

  When the text in the options grows large, the element can grow to > 100% of the width of its container and break the layout.

  (PR #1013)

• Prevent product name in header from wrapping

  Currently the product name in the header wraps when the space shrinks which doesn't look great.

  Adding display: inline-table prevents that so that the product name as a whole drops to a new line when space is shrunk.

  (PR #1007)

• Set text colour for radios divider

  (PR 1023)

• Stop links styled as button from being dragged

  Moving the mouse over a link while its button is depressed causes the browser’s dragging behaviour to trigger (and prevents the click event from firing). This is contrary to how actual <button> elements work. This pull request makes the behaviour of links styled as buttons consistent with that of buttons.

  (PR #1020)

2.1.0 (Feature release)

🆕 New features:

• Allow additional 'meta' content in the footer

  You can now pass additional 'meta' content (as meta.html or meta.text) which will appear below any meta links, above the OGL license. This is ideal for, for example, the 'Built by Department Name' colophon.

  (PR #990)

• Allow attributes to be added to some child items in header, footer, breadcrumbs, tabs and error-summary components

  You can now pass additional attributes to links in header, footer, breadcrumbs, tabs and error-summary components

  (PR #993)

• Fix issue with conditional form content and inline form controls

  When inline variant of form controls is used with conditional content, we force it to display block. This is to avoid breaking and confusing styling as it is a combination we don't recommend.

  (PR #970)

• Add component options (arguments) as macro-options.json to package

  We want to be able to expose these options to GOV.UK Design System. This change includes them as yaml in src/components and adds a build step to transform them to JSON and copy them to package/components. It also adds a test to check if the copied files are valid JSON and contain expected attributes.

  (PR #998)

🔧 Fixes:

• Fix mobile menu button submitting parent forms

  The menu <button> didn’t have an explicit type set, which meant that it defaulted to type=“submit”.

  This meant that if the header was inside a form (as it is in the Design System examples, but we can imagine other scenarios where this would be the case) clicking the menu button would submit the form.

  In most cases this would also cause the page to reload, which closes the menu.

  (PR #994)

• Fix flash of unstyled content in tabs component

  (PR #1000)

• Add 48px favicon

  Microsoft recommends including at least a 48x48px favicon.

  (PR #986)

• Update browsersList in package.json to reflect our supported browsers

  browsersList is used by PostCSS in our current build to determine which browser prefixes or rules to generate for the built CSS files. This PR adds rules to specify that the browsers in our browser matrix should always be prefixed for. Additionally, any browser with more than 0.1% of the global market share is prefixed for.

  In terms of changes to our built CSS, this means that -webkit-box-sizing and -webkit-box-shadow prefixes will be removed - neither of these prefixes are required by desktop Safari 5.1 or later so this seems a fairly safe change to make.

  (PR #1002)

2.0.0 (Breaking change)

💥 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 name

  In 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 to govuk-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 not passing items at all, you will get the default items which include these classes.

  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 manually add a width-based class, such as govuk-input--width-2 or govuk-input--width-4 to the input fields.

  (PR #969)

• Rename name argument of date-input component to namePrefix.

  This is better reflective of the purpose of the argument, which is to prefix the name attribute of items. This is consistent with other components which use the name idPrefix to explain similar functionality.

  If your project currently uses this optional argument with the date-input macro, you need to rename all instances of it to namePrefix (NB: this argument shouldn't be confused with the items.{}.name attribute which hasn't changed.)

  (PR #984)

• Turn off compatibility mode by default for GOV.UK Elements, GOV.UK Template, GOV.UK Frontend Toolkit

  You do not need to make any changes if you do not use these projects alongside GOV.UK Frontend.

  To migrate include the SCSS variables that correspond with the projects you depend on before importing GOV.UK Frontend styles into your app:

  // application.scss
  $govuk-compatibility-govukfrontendtoolkit: true;
  $govuk-compatibility-govuktemplate: true;
  $govuk-compatibility-govukelements: true;
  @import "govuk-frontend/all";

  (PR #981)

• Turn on relative typography (rem) by default

  This allows for end-users to adjust GOV.UK Frontend components by setting their font size in their browser.

  If you are using GOV.UK Frontend on with no other frameworks this should not break your project.

  If you need to change this setting for compatibility with GOV.UK Elements, GOV.UK Template, GOV.UK Frontend Toolkit consider enabling compatibility mode.

  Otherwise, set $govuk-typography-use-rem to false before importing GOV.UK Frontend styles into your app:

  // application.scss
  $govuk-typography-use-rem: false;
  @import "govuk-frontend/all";

  (PR #981)

• Remove anchor styling in govuk-lists

  This was an undocumented feature of lists.

  To migrate we recommend using adding .govuk-link class to any anchors within a govuk-list.

  If you would like to replicate this functionality without adding a class you can also enable global styles (Note: global styles are enabled by default in the GOV.UK Prototype Kit)

  (PR #985)

• Remove the width declaration from the <select> component

  The <select> component’s width will now be defined by it’s content. This addresses some accessibility issues with the select being 100% wide by default. If you want to style your select to be 100% wide we have added a new override class .govuk-!-width-full to allow this.

  (PR #960)

• Use text colour on focus for better contrast

  Updates the focus styles of links in GOV.UK Frontend so they pass WCAG contrast requirements.

  (PR #982)

🆕 New features:

• Add a new width override class .govuk-!-width-full

  You can now override elements that have an undefined or smaller percentage width to be 100% width of their container.

  (PR #960)

• Allow attributes on select items

  You can now provide attributes on select items attributes: { 'data-attribute': 'value' }

  (PR #977)

🔧 Fixes:

• Textareas can now only be resized vertically, to prevent them being resized outside of their container bounds. Additionally, they now have a minimum height to prevent them being resized smaller than a text input.

  (PR #976)

• Defend tables against GOV.UK Elements code (PR #983)

1.3.0 (feature release)

🆕 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)

1.2.0 (feature release)

🆕 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)

1.1.1 (fix release)

🔧 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)

1.1.0 (feature release)

🆕 New features:

• Add govuk-visually-hidden-focusable class

  Adds .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 is 2. (PR #853)

• Update date input component

  Allow the name and id 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 to display: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 than em

  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 and padding-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)

1.0.0 (Major release)

🆕 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)

0.0.32 (Breaking release)

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 to govuk-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 to 2 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 with govuk-media-query which accepts the same arguments. All mixins and settings that start with mq- 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 mixin govuk-font. If you are using these mixins in your application you will need to update your code to call govuk-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 $govuk-typography-scale map. Instead of passing font maps to govuk-typography-responsive you should now pass the desktop font size (e.g. govuk-typography-responsive(80) or govuk-typography-responsive($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 new govuk-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 new govuk-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 the govuk-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)

0.0.31-alpha (Breaking release)

💥 Breaking changes:

• The govuk-file-url helper has been renamed to to govuk-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. See src/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)

0.0.30-alpha (Minor release)

🔧 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 to block, inline and inline-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)

0.0.29-alpha (Breaking release)

💥 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)

• 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 or legendHintHtml - these parameters are now passed to the hint component which accepts text or html. The date-input, checkboxes and radios components have been updated to use the new Hint component.

  The label macro no longer accepts hintText or hintHtml - these parameters are now passed to the hint component which accepts text or html. 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 the h1 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 new classes and arguments

  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 the h1 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 to true.

🏠 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/ and packages/ 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.

0.0.28-alpha (Breaking release)

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

0.0.27-alpha (Breaking release)

💥 Breaking changes:

• Removed an (undocumented) modifier govuk-c-radio__item--inline which made radio buttons inline, in favour of a new block-level modifier govuk-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)

0.0.26-alpha (Breaking release)

💥 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)

0.0.25-alpha (Breaking release)

💥 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" and pattern="[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)

0.0.24-alpha (Breaking release)

💥 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 name govuk-section-break--visible in the review app's Typography page. (PR #566)

0.0.23-alpha (Breaking release)

💥 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 on govuk-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 than em. (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)

0.0.22-alpha (Breaking release)

💥 Breaking changes:

• The link styles in the core layer no longer style a elements directly, but instead provide a govuk-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 by legal-text component to text (PR #431)
• Rename legal-text component to warning-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)

0.0.21-alpha (Breaking release)

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 on form-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)