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[govuk-design-system]

What

Help users navigate through a linear sequence of information pages.

Example on GOV.UK

Why

Services that use this pattern:

• GOV.UK guidance

Anything else

• Land Registry has a version called Pagination simple
• Related component: Pagination

[nickcolley]

This pattern is used on www.GOV.UK pages such as:

• Search pages
• Guide pages

You can see the GOV.UK Publishing component guide for more information

[kr8n3r]

GOV.UK Pagination is now stacked, for example https://www.gov.uk/youth-crime-prevention-programmes/how-young-people-are-put-on-a-programme

[kateiw]

We changed the design and brought the navigation into a single column for 2 main reasons:

• it works better for zoom text users when the navigation elements that do the same/opposite things are closer to each other, and aligned in a single column because they are easier to discover
• in the previous design, when there was anything in the side bar/3rd column the arrow was pointing directly at it, which was confusing users