Component

Related Navigation

Component showing related content, including topics, guidance and collections

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How it looks (preview) (preview all)

How to call this component

<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/related_navigation", {
  content_item: {
    links: {
      ordered_related_items: [
        {
          title: "Find an apprenticeship",
          base_path: "/apply-apprenticeship"
        },
        {
          title: "Training and study at work",
          base_path: "/training-study-work-your-rights"
        },
        {
          title: "Careers helpline for teenagers",
          base_path: "/careers-helpline-for-teenagers"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
} %>

Accessibility acceptance criteria

• Should have a role of ‘navigation’ on any navigation elements inside the component
• Should be marked up as navigation and not as tangential content

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

With mainstream browse pages (preview)

<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/related_navigation", {
  content_item: {
    links: {
      mainstream_browse_pages: [
        {
          title: "Driving licences",
          base_path: "/browse/driving/driving-licences",
          document_type: "mainstream_browse_page"
        },
        {
          title: "Driving tests and learning to drive or ride",
          base_path: "/browse/driving/learning-to-drive",
          document_type: "mainstream_browse_page"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
} %>

With taxons (preview)

<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/related_navigation", {
  content_item: {
    links: {
      taxons: [
        {
          title: "Driving instruction and driving lessons",
          base_path: "/transport/driving-instruction-and-driving-lessons",
          phase: "live",
          document_type: "taxon"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
} %>

With mainstream browse pages and taxons (preview)

Mainstream browse pages take precedence over the sidewide topic taxonomy.

<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/related_navigation", {
  content_item: {
    links: {
      mainstream_browse_pages: [
        {
          title: "Driving licences",
          base_path: "/browse/driving/driving-licences",
          document_type: "mainstream_browse_page"
        },
        {
          title: "Driving tests and learning to drive or ride",
          base_path: "/browse/driving/learning-to-drive",
          document_type: "mainstream_browse_page"
        }
      ],
      taxons: [
        {
          title: "Driving instruction and driving lessons",
          base_path: "/transport/driving-instruction-and-driving-lessons",
          phase: "live",
          document_type: "taxon"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
} %>

With collections (preview)

<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/related_navigation", {
  content_item: {
    links: {
      document_collections: [
        {
          title: "Recruit an apprentice (formerly apprenticeship vacancies)",
          base_path: "/government/collections/apprenticeship-vacancies",
          document_type: "document_collection"
        },
        {
          title: "The future of jobs and skills",
          base_path: "/government/collections/the-future-of-jobs-and-skills",
          document_type: "document_collection"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
} %>

With topical events (preview)

<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/related_navigation", {
  content_item: {
    links: {
      topical_events: [
        {
          title: "UK-China High-Level People to People Dialogue 2017",
          base_path: "/government/topical-events/uk-china-high-level-people-to-people-dialogue-2017",
          document_type: "topical_event"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
} %>

With world locations (preview)

<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/related_navigation", {
  content_item: {
    links: {
      world_locations: [
        {
          title: "South Sudan",
          base_path: "/world/south-sudan/news"
        },
        {
          title: "USA",
          base_path: "/world/usa/news"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
} %>

With external related links (preview)

The component can accept other related links, such as external links or other contacts.

<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/related_navigation", {
  content_item: {
    details: {
      external_related_links: [
        {
          url: "http://media.slc.co.uk/sfe/1718/ft/sfe_terms_and_conditions_guide_1718_d.pdf",
          title: "Student loans: terms and conditions 2017 to 2018 (PDF, 136KB)"
        },
        {
          url: "https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/content.php?r=5967-Repaying-your-student-loan",
          title: "The Student Room: repaying your student loan"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
} %>

With extensive world locations (preview)

The component handles having a long list of content passed to it, by only showing the first few items and hiding the rest behind a Show More toggle.

<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/related_navigation", {
  content_item: {
    links: {
      world_locations: [
        {
          title: "Algeria",
          base_path: "/world/algeria/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Austria",
          base_path: "/world/austria/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Belarus",
          base_path: "/world/belarus/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Belgium",
          base_path: "/world/belgium/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Bolivia",
          base_path: "/world/bolivia/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Brazil",
          base_path: "/world/brazil/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Canada",
          base_path: "/world/canada/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Chile",
          base_path: "/world/chile/news"
        },
        {
          title: "China",
          base_path: "/world/China/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Cuba",
          base_path: "/world/cuba/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Denmark",
          base_path: "/world/denmark/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Egypt",
          base_path: "/world/egypt/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Fiji",
          base_path: "/world/fiji/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Finland",
          base_path: "/world/finland/news"
        },
        {
          title: "France",
          base_path: "/world/france/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Germany",
          base_path: "/world/germany/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Greece",
          base_path: "/world/greece/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Norway",
          base_path: "/world/norway/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Russia",
          base_path: "/world/russia/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Sweden",
          base_path: "/world/sweden/news"
        },
        {
          title: "United Kingdom",
          base_path: "/world/united-kingdom/news"
        },
        {
          title: "USA",
          base_path: "/world/usa/news"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
} %>

With quick links (preview)

<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/related_navigation", {
  content_item: {
    details: {
      quick_links: [
        {
          title: "Money Laundering Regulations: introduction",
          url: "https://www.gov.uk/money-laundering-regulations-introduction"
        },
        {
          title: "Money Laundering Regulations: report suspicious activities",
          url: "https://www.gov.uk/money-laundering-regulations-report-suspicious-activities"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
} %>

With related statistical data sets (preview)

<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/related_navigation", {
  content_item: {
    links: {
      related_statistical_data_sets: [
        {
          title: "International road fuel prices",
          base_path: "/government/statistical-data-sets/comparisons-of-industrial-and-domestic-energy-prices-monthly-figures",
          document_type: "statistical_data_set"
        },
        {
          title: "Weekly road fuel prices",
          base_path: "/government/statistical-data-sets/oil-and-petroleum-products-weekly-statistics",
          document_type: "statistical_data_set"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
} %>

With related contacts (preview)

<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/related_navigation", {
  content_item: {
    links: {
      related: [
        {
          title: "Pest Control",
          base_path: "/pest-control",
          document_type: "contact"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
} %>

With different languages (preview)

Each link can have a locale parameter to set the correct lang attribute.

If the link locale is the same as the document locale, then the lang attribute won’t be used. For example, lang="en" won’t appear on a page written in English.

<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/related_navigation", {
  content_item: {
    links: {
      ordered_related_items: [
        {
          title: "Find an apprenticeship (French)",
          base_path: "/apply-apprenticeship.fr",
          locale: "fr"
        }
      ],
      mainstream_browse_pages: [
        {
          title: "Apprenticeships, 14 to 19 education and training for work (Korean)",
          base_path: "/browse/education/find-course.ko",
          document_type: "topic",
          locale: "ko"
        }
      ],
      topical_events: [
        {
          title: "UK-China High-Level People to People Dialogue 2017 (Spanish)",
          base_path: "/government/topical-events/uk-china-high-level-people-to-people-dialogue-2017.es",
          document_type: "topical_event",
          locale: "es"
        }
      ],
      related: [
        {
          title: "Jam producers (Spanish)",
          base_path: "/jam-producers.es",
          document_type: "contact",
          locale: "es"
        }
      ],
      related_statistical_data_sets: [
        {
          title: "International road fuel prices (Italian)",
          base_path: "/government/statistical-data-sets/comparisons-of-industrial-and-domestic-energy-prices-monthly-figures.it",
          document_type: "statistical_data_set",
          locale: "it"
        }
      ],
      document_collections: [
        {
          title: "Recruit an apprentice (formerly apprenticeship vacancies)",
          base_path: "/government/collections/apprenticeship-vacancies",
          document_type: "document_collection",
          locale: "en"
        }
      ],
      world_locations: [
        {
          title: "South Sudan (Arabic)",
          base_path: "/world/south-sudan/news.ar",
          locale: "ar"
        }
      ]
    },
    details: {
      external_related_links: [
        {
          url: "http://media.slc.co.uk/sfe/1718/ft/sfe_terms_and_conditions_guide_1718_d.pdf",
          title: "Student loans: terms and conditions 2017 to 2018 (PDF, 136KB)",
          locale: "en"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
} %>

With all related-content (preview)

<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/related_navigation", {
  content_item: {
    links: {
      ordered_related_items: [
        {
          title: "Find an apprenticeship",
          base_path: "/apply-apprenticeship"
        },
        {
          title: "Training and study at work",
          base_path: "/training-study-work-your-rights"
        },
        {
          title: "Careers helpline for teenagers",
          base_path: "/careers-helpline-for-teenagers"
        }
      ],
      mainstream_browse_pages: [
        {
          title: "Apprenticeships, 14 to 19 education and training for work",
          base_path: "/browse/education/find-course",
          document_type: "mainstream_browse_page"
        },
        {
          title: "Finding a job",
          base_path: "/browse/working/finding-job",
          document_type: "mainstream_browse_page"
        }
      ],
      topical_events: [
        {
          title: "UK-China High-Level People to People Dialogue 2017",
          base_path: "/government/topical-events/uk-china-high-level-people-to-people-dialogue-2017",
          document_type: "topical_event"
        }
      ],
      related: [
        {
          title: "Pest Control",
          base_path: "/pest-control",
          document_type: "contact"
        }
      ],
      related_statistical_data_sets: [
        {
          title: "International road fuel prices",
          base_path: "/government/statistical-data-sets/comparisons-of-industrial-and-domestic-energy-prices-monthly-figures",
          document_type: "statistical_data_set"
        },
        {
          title: "Weekly road fuel prices",
          base_path: "/government/statistical-data-sets/oil-and-petroleum-products-weekly-statistics",
          document_type: "statistical_data_set"
        }
      ],
      document_collections: [
        {
          title: "Recruit an apprentice (formerly apprenticeship vacancies)",
          base_path: "/government/collections/apprenticeship-vacancies",
          document_type: "document_collection"
        },
        {
          title: "The future of jobs and skills",
          base_path: "/government/collections/the-future-of-jobs-and-skills",
          document_type: "document_collection"
        }
      ],
      world_locations: [
        {
          title: "South Sudan",
          base_path: "/world/south-sudan/news"
        },
        {
          title: "USA",
          base_path: "/world/usa/news"
        }
      ]
    },
    details: {
      external_related_links: [
        {
          url: "http://media.slc.co.uk/sfe/1718/ft/sfe_terms_and_conditions_guide_1718_d.pdf",
          title: "Student loans: terms and conditions 2017 to 2018 (PDF, 136KB)"
        },
        {
          title: "The Student Room repaying your student loan",
          url: "https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/content.php?r=5967-Repaying-your-student-loan"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
} %>

Without ga4 tracking (preview)

Disables GA4 tracking on the banner. Tracking is enabled by default and uses the GA4 link tracker.

<%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/related_navigation", {
  disable_ga4: true,
  content_item: {
    links: {
      ordered_related_items: [
        {
          title: "Find an apprenticeship",
          base_path: "/apply-apprenticeship"
        },
        {
          title: "Training and study at work",
          base_path: "/training-study-work-your-rights"
        },
        {
          title: "Careers helpline for teenagers",
          base_path: "/careers-helpline-for-teenagers"
        }
      ],
      mainstream_browse_pages: [
        {
          title: "Apprenticeships, 14 to 19 education and training for work",
          base_path: "/browse/education/find-course",
          document_type: "mainstream_browse_page"
        },
        {
          title: "Finding a job",
          base_path: "/browse/working/finding-job",
          document_type: "mainstream_browse_page"
        }
      ],
      topical_events: [
        {
          title: "UK-China High-Level People to People Dialogue 2017",
          base_path: "/government/topical-events/uk-china-high-level-people-to-people-dialogue-2017",
          document_type: "topical_event"
        }
      ],
      world_locations: [
        {
          title: "Algeria",
          base_path: "/world/algeria/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Austria",
          base_path: "/world/austria/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Belarus",
          base_path: "/world/belarus/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Belgium",
          base_path: "/world/belgium/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Bolivia",
          base_path: "/world/bolivia/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Brazil",
          base_path: "/world/brazil/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Canada",
          base_path: "/world/canada/news"
        },
        {
          title: "Chile",
          base_path: "/world/chile/news"
        },
        {
          title: "China",
          base_path: "/world/China/news"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
} %>