Back-to-top link

[govuk-design-system]

What

A link to help users quickly navigate back to the top of long pages of content:

Why

Explain why you think this should be added to the GOV.UK Design System.

• Is it needed by multiple services across government?
• Does it meets the needs of the users of those services?
• Could those needs be better met by something already in the Design System?

Anything else

There's an example at the bottom of this page on GOV.UK

To do

• Analyse analytics from GOV.UK to measure usage against page length

[ignaciaorellana]

Here is the version from GOV.UK Publishing Components Government Frontend Component Guide: Back-to-top link

[timpaul]

Questions:

• do many services have pages long enough to need this component?
• do people use this component?

[frankieroberto]

This page uses a slightly different implementation, where on scrolling down the link appears within a grey box anchored to the bottom of the window:

[frankieroberto]

The Design System pages use another variant, where the link is anchored to the top of the left hand column when scrolling down. The text is also "Back to top":

[lucy-d2s]

@govuk-design-system is the correct version the one used in the Design System pages?

[CharlotteDowns]

Government Frontend Component Guide: Back-to-top link

@lucy-d2s this is not a published component in the design system. We use it on the design system pages but it has not been properly assessed against the Design System contribution criteria and reviewed by our working group.