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Service navigation

Documents the Service navigation component for showing service identity, service navigation links, mobile collapse behavior, current or active navigation state, service-level slots, and accurate landmark labels.

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Service navigation Choose service navigation when one named service needs persistent identity and a small set of service-level destinations across multiple pages. Activating a service navigation link changes to the named service section and updates current or active service state. GOV.UK Service navigation documents the component surface, service name, navigation array, current and active states, mobile collapse, slots, and landmark labelling.

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Publisher: GOV.UK Design System. Last checked: .