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GOV.UK Design System: Inset text

Documents inset text for highlighting important content on a page, including guidance not to overuse it and to keep it close to relevant content.

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Summary box Choose summary box when a longer page needs a compact extract of key facts, next steps, eligibility, documents, dates, or outcomes. The summary box summarizes content that is present, reachable, or clearly linked from the same task context. GOV.UK inset text guidance helps distinguish important static page content from alerts and warnings.

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Publisher: GOV.UK. Last checked: .