Changelog

Design System 1.0.15

Publication date: TBA

Global navigation not evenly distributed left/right

Ref: DS-69862

There was an issue spotted with incorrect right hand spacing on the global navigation component.

Search Results - Filter by button issue

Ref: DS-77992

There was an issue spotted with the search results page, where at '1023px' view the 'Filter by' button would disapear.

Hero banner component & template update for use in homepages

Update to component to make accessible, change to homepage template to allow the use of the hero banner in homepage examples.

Favicon advise

Made visible favicon code in the design system with notes Added a new line of code for the favicon which is working in google search for the design system. See HTML / Notes tab

Campaign landing page

For online courses - Hard coded HTML example with widget container to match implementation team

Campaign landing confirmation page

For online courses - Hard coded HTML example with widget container to match implementation team

Stacked variant of in-text-facts

For Campaign landing page, if config 'type': 'stacked' then a class is added that changes the css so the intext fact items are now stacked.

Article featured css updates

  • Updates to the feature image component when displayed within an article. The featured image will be displayed bigger on news and events variants. Some CKeditor components were overspilling the container so these have been brought back inside.

New content highlight component

Ref: DS-66085

New CKeditor Component, designed for the Campaign Landing Page (Online Courses).

Component variants can be found here:

Incorrect Accordion Margin Spacing

Ref: DS-72407

There were a couple of issues reported around spacing on the accordion.

Fixes can be seen here:

In-text CTA heading tag improvements

Ref: DS-71287

Update to this component to allow for different heading or paragraph tags to be used. This is to improve accessibility and flexibility of how the component can be used (includes updated documentation on how to use).

Examples of the component using different tags:

In-text facts layout improvements

Ref: DS-57152

Update to this component to allow for different heading tags to be used, to improve accessibility. Documentation has been updated to provide guidance on how to use this.

Examples of the component using different tags:

New composite results component

Ref: DS-72051

Throughout the design system there are a range of different but similar results components. These have now been consolidated in to one single component called 'results'. This component and its associated variants accommodates all different styles and requirements of previously used results components.

Previous components are still in the design system as implemented sites may still use them. Going forward implemented sites to use this new component and where possible convert any old to new.

Page examples of the new component to be added to this changelog.


Design System 1.0.14.2

Patch to 1.0.14 version including:

Document page with section navigation layout issue

Previously the section navigation overlapped with the lead sentence red line (this wasn't noticed before as examples didn't have long text in the section navigation). Added a variant which demonstrates the longer text no longer clashing with the red line.

Course page example related courses page fix

The related courses on the below example weren't working correctly. This was due to config data in this example not being automatically updated. This won't affected any implemented sites as they use the updated component.

Design System 1.0.14.1

Patch to 1.0.14 version including:

Update to course page template following layout error:

Adding featured image to document template:

Addition to enable Funnelback integration with typeahead search

There should be no noticeable change within the Design System for this change but the following example page should work without any errors, and console logs when using the typeahead component are now removed.


Design System 1.0.14

Publication date: 07 June 2024

Online courses blog search results page - new example

Ref: DS-61492

Njk: new; CSS: N/A; JS: Config only

New example product page for Online Courses, Blog Search Results. This features existing search page components and the updated search results item (detailed below).


Linked list - updated css, add to ckEditor

Ref: DS-46233

Njk: N/A; CSS: updated; JS: config only

Changes to the css to ensure touch targets are large enough and accessible.

Also embedded into the CKeditor


Search results items update

Ref: DS-45994

Njk: updated; CSS: updated; JS: Config only

Update to search results items component to improve layout and add additional variants that better demonstrate configuration options. Please see below for variant details.

List of key variants:


In text icons - new component

Ref: DS-45989

Njk: New; CSS: updated; JS: Config only

In text icons, new way of showing icon text pairs for within article or document patterns.

Test URLs:


New hero banner component

Ref: DS-45988

Njk: New; CSS: updated; JS: Config only

Similar but not same as banner component, this banner allows for one visual "hero" banner with an image, title and optional lead sentence, and no call to action.

Above link shows default banner. Following link shows banner with lead sentence.


Search form patterns - new variants

Ref: DS-49470

This variant presents two drop down lists before a search box and button.

Njk: Updated; CSS: updated; JS: Config only

This pattern appears as a form component variant and a form widget


Social media icons update

Ref: DS-56582

Update twitter icon, added threads and tiktok icons

Njk: Two new added; CSS: N/A; JS: Config only

Each of the above updated on following pages (in footer):


Header local navigation - new variant added

Njk: N/A; CSS: N/A; JS: Config only. Documentation added.

To exhibit how active page header item needs to be set to show active page, a new variant has been added together with supporting documentation. Support guidance updated accordingly.

@uol-header-local-navigation--highlight-active-page


Article examples update

Ref: DS-61963 and DS-46397

Njk: N/A; CSS: N/A; JS: Config only

Further additions to Article example pages


Article highlight

Njk: updated

Bugfix for landmark accessibility, swapped out

for semantic