Components

Warning text

Use the warning text component when you need to warn users about something important, such as legal consequences of an action, or lack of action, that they might take.

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Warning You must appeal within 1 year of getting your decision letter.
HTML 
<div class="govuk-warning-text">
  <span class="govuk-warning-text__icon" aria-hidden="true">!</span>
  <strong class="govuk-warning-text__text">
    <span class="govuk-visually-hidden">Warning</span>
    You must appeal within 1 year of getting your decision letter.
  </strong>
</div>
Nunjucks
Nunjucks macro options

Use options to customise the appearance, content and behaviour of a component when using a macro, for example, changing the text.

Some options are required for the macro to work; these are marked as "Required" in the option description.

If you’re using Nunjucks macros in production with "html" options, or ones ending with "html", you must sanitise the HTML to protect against cross-site scripting exploits.

Primary options
Name Type Description
text string Required.

If html is set, this is not required. Text to use within the warning text component. If html is provided, the text option will be ignored.
html string Required.

If text is set, this is not required. HTML to use within the warning text component. If html is provided, the text option will be ignored.
iconFallbackText string

The fallback text for the icon. Defaults to "Warning".
classes string

Classes to add to the warning text.
attributes object

HTML attributes (for example data attributes) to add to the warning text.

 
{% from "moduk/components/warning-text/macro.njk" import modukWarningText -%}

{{ modukWarningText({ 
  text: "You must appeal within 1 year of getting your decision letter.",
  iconFallbackText: "Warning"
}) -}}

See GOV.UK warning text component guidance for how it works.

Changes from the GOV.UK version

MOD.UK Design System components are closely based on GOV.UK Design System components.

For this component we’ve changed the font.

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