Making all links GOV.UK Frontend styled means some
will sit in content that doesn't use the GOV.UK
Frontend font styles yet.
This applies the font-smoothing that comes with
those styles to all text so links do not look out
of place on browsers that support it.
Note: font-smoothing was part of the GOV.UK
Template styles which have now been removed:
https://github.com/alphagov/govuk_template/blob/master/source/assets/stylesheets/_basic.scss#L68
Making all links GOV.UK Frontend styled means some
will sit in content that doesn't use the GOV.UK
Frontend font styles yet.
This applies the font-smoothing that comes with
those styles to all text so links do not look out
of place on browsers that support it.
Note: font-smoothing was part of the GOV.UK
Template styles which have now been removed:
https://github.com/alphagov/govuk_template/blob/master/source/assets/stylesheets/_basic.scss#L68
We removed govuk_template when we moved to the
GOVUK Frontend template.njk for our base layout.
The flag was originally turned on under the
assumption that the global CSS govuk_template adds
would be present in our cascade. It fixes issues
that CSS causes with the GOVUK Frontend CSS
further down.
This was mostly wrong, as we did remove the
govuk_template code, but our situation is a bit
different because when we removed it, we copied
across some global styles it introduces to prevent
problems with our own CSS.
One of the side-effects of turning on this flag
was that the Transport font was not being applied.
This turns the flag off again, which replaces the
font, and hard-codes in the fix having this flag
would have brought in: a darker colour for link
text when focused.
Until we change all the buttons to use GOVUK
Frontend we need this CSS to give them the New
Transport (NTA) font-family.
Was previously in GOVUK Template CSS but missed
out from being moved across when this was removed:
f164b2825b/source/assets/stylesheets/_basic.scss (L6)
The global CSS we're keeping from the GOVUK
Template styles needs to go in the same position
as it was before, above GOVUK Elements.
This means we can't use any variables from GOVUK
Frontend in it so this changes the link colour
back to what it was (until all links get updated).
Includes Sass that targeted GOV.UK Template HTML
and also moves some link styles to `globals.scss`.
Also removes bits of frontend build that copied
over GOVUK Template files.
GOV.UK Template included styles targeting elements
by their tag name, so affected all elements of
that type. Removing these files removes certain
styles from the top of the cascade.
Moving all components to GOV.UK Frontend (that are
possible) should fix this further down the
cascade. This adds them back to plug the gap in
the cascade until that work happens.
The global CSS we're keeping from the GOVUK
Template styles needs to go in the same position
as it was before, above GOVUK Elements.
This means we can't use any variables from GOVUK
Frontend in it so this changes the link colour
back to what it was (until all links get updated).
Includes Sass that targeted GOV.UK Template HTML
and also moves some link styles to `globals.scss`.
Also removes bits of frontend build that copied
over GOVUK Template files.
GOV.UK Template included styles targeting elements
by their tag name, so affected all elements of
that type. Removing these files removes certain
styles from the top of the cascade.
Moving all components to GOV.UK Frontend (that are
possible) should fix this further down the
cascade. This adds them back to plug the gap in
the cascade until that work happens.
The global CSS we're keeping from the GOVUK
Template styles needs to go in the same position
as it was before, above GOVUK Elements.
This means we can't use any variables from GOVUK
Frontend in it so this changes the link colour
back to what it was (until all links get updated).
Includes Sass that targeted GOV.UK Template HTML
and also moves some link styles to `globals.scss`.
Also removes bits of frontend build that copied
over GOVUK Template files.
GOV.UK Template included styles targeting elements
by their tag name, so affected all elements of
that type. Removing these files removes certain
styles from the top of the cascade.
Moving all components to GOV.UK Frontend (that are
possible) should fix this further down the
cascade. This adds them back to plug the gap in
the cascade until that work happens.
