@ministryofjustice/frontend

What is @ministryofjustice/frontend?

@ministryofjustice/frontend is a frontend toolkit designed to help developers build consistent and accessible web applications for the Ministry of Justice. It provides a set of reusable components, styles, and patterns that adhere to the Ministry's design guidelines.

What are @ministryofjustice/frontend's main functionalities?

Form Elements

This feature provides styled form elements such as input fields, labels, and form groups to ensure consistency and accessibility in form design.

<form>
  <div class="moj-form-group">
    <label class="moj-label" for="input-example">Example label</label>
    <input class="moj-input" id="input-example" name="input-example" type="text">
  </div>
</form>

Buttons

This feature offers pre-styled buttons that can be used to maintain a consistent look and feel across different web applications.

<button class="moj-button">Submit</button>

Navigation

This feature provides navigation components that help in creating consistent and accessible navigation menus.

<nav class="moj-navigation">
  <ul>
    <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">About</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
  </ul>
</nav>

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README

Ministry of Justice Frontend

MOJ Frontend contains the code you need to start building user interfaces for UK Ministry of Justice government services.

See live examples of MOJ Frontend components, and guidance on when to use them in your service, in the MoJ Design System.

Contact the team

MOJ Frontend is maintained by a team at MoJ. If you want to know more about MOJ Frontend, please email the Design System team.

Quick start

We recommend installing MOJ Frontend using node package manager (npm).

Once installed, you will be able to use the code from the examples in the MoJ Design System in your service.

Browser support

MOJ Frontend will allow you to build services that comply with the guidance in the Service Manual.

If you are including MOJ Frontend as part of a stylesheet that you are generating in your application's build pipeline, you will need to generate and include a separate stylesheet in order to support Internet Explorer 8.

Assistive technology support

MOJ Frontend will allow you to build services that comply with the guidance in the Service Manual.

In addition, we test that all content is accessible with keyboard only.

We aim to support users who adjust or override the colours of websites they visit. We test this by changing colours in Firefox, by enabling 'High Contrast' mode in Windows and by using the High Contrast plugin for Chrome.

Contribution guidelines

If you want to help us build MOJ Frontend, view our contribution guidelines.

Changelog

v0.0.9-alpha

• Change namespacing. See issue 6
• Fix inline and toggle search
• Fix focus states for search and menu components