The GOV.UK Design System launched on 22 June 2018

GOV.UK Template:

• is no longer maintained
• will only be updated for major bug fixes and security patches
• does not meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1 level AA) accessibility standard

This framework will remain available in case you’re currently using it. To help your service meet accessibility requirements, you should use the GOV.UK Design System. You can migrate to the Design System from GOV.UK Template.

GOV.UK Template

This provides a template containing the GOV.UK header and footer, and associated assets. It provides a consistent GOV.UK brand experience across www.gov.uk and all services running under the service.gov.uk domain.

The template is built from source files, and multiple packages are generated to support different languages and frameworks.

Packages are available for RubyGems, NPM (mustache, ejs, jinja), and other templating languages.

Previewing the template

You can view a collection of auto-generated examples of the current govuk_template release, which show how you can use the template.

Requirements

The Ruby language (1.9.3+), the build tool Rake & the dependancy management tool Bundler

Detailed Docs

• Development
• Packaging
• Publishing

Usage

• Using with Rails
• GOV.UK template blocks and their default values (how to customise the template)
• Setting a Skip link
• Propositional title and navigation

Contributing

Please follow the contribution guidelines.

This is versioned following Semantic Versioning.