Component

Chat entry

Entry point for GOV.UK Chat

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How it looks (preview) (preview all)

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How to call this component

<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/chat_entry", {
} %>

Accessibility acceptance criteria

The heading must:

be part of a correct heading structure for a page
be semantically represented as a heading
convey the heading level

Links in the component must:

accept focus
be focusable with a keyboard
be usable with a keyboard
indicate when they have focus
change in appearance when touched (in the touch-down state)
change in appearance when hovered
be usable with touch
be usable with voice commands
have visible text
have meaningful text

Other examples

Standard options

This component uses the component wrapper helper. It accepts the following options and applies them to the parent element of the component. See the component wrapper helper documentation for more detail.

id - accepts a string for the element ID attribute
data_attributes - accepts a hash of data attributes
aria - accepts a hash of aria attributes
classes - accepts a space separated string of classes, these should not be used for styling and must be prefixed with js-
role - accepts a space separated string of roles
lang - accepts a language attribute value
open - accepts an open attribute value (true or false)
hidden - accepts an empty string, ‘hidden’, or ‘until-found’
tabindex - accepts an integer. The integer can also be passed as a string.
dir - accepts ‘rtl’, ‘ltr’, or ‘auto’.

With custom href, heading and or description (preview)

Go to GOV.UK Chat

Get answers to your business questions

<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/chat_entry", {
  href: "/chat",
  heading_text: "Go to GOV.UK Chat",
  description_text: "Get answers to your business questions"
} %>

With a different heading level (preview)

Chat entry has a h2 by default, but this can be changed. The heading level does not change any styling.

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<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/chat_entry", {
  heading_level: 3
} %>

With a border top (preview)

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<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/chat_entry", {
  border_top: true
} %>

With a border bottom (preview)

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<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/chat_entry", {
  border_bottom: true
} %>

With a border top and a border bottom (preview)

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<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/chat_entry", {
  border_top: true,
  border_bottom: true
} %>

With margin bottom (preview)

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<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/chat_entry", {
  margin_bottom: 3
} %>

With margin top until tablet (preview)

Adds a .gem-c-chat-entry--margin-top-until-tablet class that applies margin-top:35px on smaller screen sizes (i.e. tablets and below)

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<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/chat_entry", {
  margin_top_until_tablet: true
} %>

Without ga4 tracking (preview)

Disables GA4 tracking on the component. Tracking is enabled by default. This adds a data module and data-attributes with JSON data. See the ga4-link-tracker documentation for more information.

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<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/chat_entry", {
  disable_ga4: true
} %>