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This is the first release containing the new Gen3 brand 🎉
Since it was such a huge milestone updating the brand we decided to bump up a major version. It shouldn't contain any breaking changes from v7.0.1.
New features ✨
- New Gen3 branding #1
- Ported Gen 2 footer #42
- Changed from using logo with transparent background to solid blue background #42
- Selects now hav a
disabledstate #104 - Pathfinders can now contain
ulandolelements #105 - Introduced
redcolours into the colour palette:--col-red-darkand--col-red-main#139 - Added 'Supplying to the University' link to the
globalfooter #161 - Added accommodation link to
globalfooter #130 - Added
nofollowattributes totellinks inglobalfooter #130
Other Changes
- Added strike-through to Checklist #27
- Adjusted
<h1 class="aligned-title"></h1>to match standardh1size at corresponding breakpoints #28 - Adjusted
h6to followptag sizing #28 - Removed
letter-spacingfrom.uomcontent .fullwidth h2#28 - Reversed Full-width tabs style - it is now a hybrid of the alt version from Gen2 and the Gen1 styles. #26
- Links are now
underlinedby default and have theirunderlineremoved onhover. #35 - Adjusted Selects contrast and consistency #36
- Adjusted CTA Button contrast #38
- Removed 'University Sitemap' flyout from hamburger menu #37
- Adjusted colour of Inline Form buttons #39
- Fixed direction of arrow for
button-hero-reverse#41 - Adjusted background colour of warning Flash Message #40
- Added animation to Accordion opening / closing #44
- Adjusted Event listing
tagsto look like Gen2 style #45 - Improved contrast of text against tiles on Filtered listings #46
- Improved Pathfinder #47
- Adjusted padding to push text away from the corners
- featured variant - change background colour from purple to Blue Mid 2. Background colour on hover can be set to Blue Dark. Remove fill on button (and on hover)
- Soft pathfinder - set the border colour of the button to Navy Main @ 30% opacity, and the text colour to Navy Main. On Hover, transition the border colour opacity to 100% to match the behaviour of the Blue and White Pathfinder. Remove the background-color on hover so that the text is readable
- White pathfinder - remove bottom border
- Adjusted button sizes #48
- Removed
text-transform: underlinefrombuttonson hover where applicable. Other hover state changes should remain the same. - Adjusted
buttonsto match sizing of Gen 2
- Removed
- Article headers now use
navycolour #55 - Block listings are now visually consistent with single date events #53
- Fix colours in alternate
footer#56 styled-selectis now injected into the same position in the DOM. TheFancySelectcode naively appends content into its container, which can cause it to move unexpectedly. #59- Ensured
selectcontent doesn’t flow under the caret #77 - Removed auto-scrolling feature on tabbed navigation #85
- Removed 'Browse University' link in fly-out menu #87
- Added cover gradient to ensure
breadcrumbsdon't awkwardly bleed over search and menu icons #88 - Updated
infoNotice text colour fromgreyto mainnavycolour #89 - When a Modal box is opened, keyboard focus now moves to the top of the
modal. #57- This adds a small addition to the
utilsmodule here to control focus (based on the WAI-ARIA example code) and then uses that module in the modal to:- Set focus within the modal as it’s opened
- Return focus to the triggering element when the modal is
closed - Added the expected behaviour where modals are dismissed by pressing
escapekey.
- This adds a small addition to the
- Adjusted global font and link colour scheme #92
- Added tiny line to create some contrast between Headers. This adds a single pixel divider that hangs under the
navand creates some contrast between similarly dark colours. #86 - Adjusted header identifier to more closely match Gen2 #90
- Custom footers now have a different background colour to the
globalfooter #96 - Adjusted
headercolour to distinguish it from theheaderandtabbed nav. #94 - Removed
font-sizeoverride on.title#98 - Adjusted
button-softcolours to provide greater definition against thesidebarbackground colour #99 navigationis now sticky on mobile #102- Improved consistency of Button styles #103
- Link colours / underlines are now consistent for Block listing and Simple Listing #108
- Hero button styles now have a solid background colour #111
- Adjusted headers to allow the to text expand to their content. The new
Noto Serifheadings are considerably larger thanRoboto Thin. This was bumping thesubheadingandCTA buttonout of the header and under the page content when the heading was long. #109 - Removed focus marks from Pathfinder and added
border-bottomto align with Gen2 #106 - Blockquote styles are more consistent #101
- Fixed
.pathfinder-3and.pathfinder-4button spacing #100 - Improved contrast on reversed headers by adding
text-shadow#114 - Adjusted Filtered listing title and check box colours #110
- Undo
button-smalloverride in Pathfinders #115 - Reduced size of
doubleblock listing headings atbp-widebreakpoint #97 - Removed tiny line from floating header that was introduced in #86 #124
- Updates to timeline styles #125
- Matched
litopcolors - Removed
uppercasetransformation fromdtelements
- Matched
- Adjusted the default
h1andh2to useSource Sans Pro Boldand removed thepadding-top#129 - Removed custom
h2style from News articles #129 - Updated strategy link in
globalfooter #130 - Fixed heading
font-sizeand removedmax-widthfromsoftPathfinder #132 - Adjusted mobile styles for tables #134
- Removed
padding-bottomfrom thefirst-childoftdelements - Removed
borderfrom thefirst-childofthelements in mobile view
- Removed
- Updated
font-weightofpandstrongelements in headers #133 Profile NameandTitlein Staff listing - detailed are nowbold#128dtandddstyles stand out more in Contact box, Highlight box, and Emergency box #127- Heading class
.titlenow usesSource Sans Profont #137 - Removed all
letter-spacingfrom headings that useSource Sans Profont #137 - Updated Button
warningand Noticedangerto use new--col-red-maincolour colour #139 - Updated Notice
warningto use--col-yellow-midcolour #139 - Pathfinder updates #142
- Use
Source Sans Profont - Apply semi-transparent background to
.softpathfinders - Add a featured tile to the
pathfinder-2soft example for reference - Create a common
.featuredstyle and apply across all pathfinders.
- Use
- Removed double bottom border when accordion is open #126
- Added some additional spacing beneath
headerelements. Also toh2elements that immediately followheaderelements. #143 - Added
text-shadowtopelements in headers #144 - Removed
text-shadowfromh1andpelements inside Articles - Header without image #145 - Increased
h2line-height #156 - Fixed image sizing on Staff Listing when image with different
widthandheightare used #160 subandsupelements were having their font-sizes overridden by more specific elements. Updated to now enforce a 75%font-sizeon all of these elements and their children #163- Fixed issue in Header with Box where the title text overlaps itself when it wraps onto a second line making it unreadible #164
- Reduced text size and added back in
border-bottomto In-page Navigation #131 - Removed
max-widthfromh1andpelements in headers #166 - Added padding to
selectelement to prevent bleeding into drop-down chevron #168 - Fixed an issue where the Modal close button was overlapping the title #167
- Increased
line-heightfor.fullwidth h2elements #171 Fixed calculation ofcurrentjumpnav item due to sizing changes of the headers #173 - Fixed issue where Headings used in the custom site footer appear blue on a blue background #173
- Fixed issue where horizontal scroll bar was shown when mega menu was not collapsed #173 In-page navigation design tweaks #173
- Fixed
h2elements not receiving white colour on blue background in Course layout #173 - Add
app.jsonfor review apps #31 - Allow any
GETrequests overCORS#79