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Scottish Government Design System Skip link

Documents skip links for bypassing repeated navigation and breadcrumbs, recommends the label Skip to main content, and describes Enter moving browser focus to the target.

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Skip link Choose a skip link when repeated blocks appear before the primary content on pages in a site, service, product shell, or app. The skip link is reachable before the repeated content it bypasses. Scottish Government guidance supports bypassing repeated elements, Skip to main content wording, and moving focus to the target on Enter.

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This source is treated as service-manual evidence. Use it to validate the decision rules above, not as a visual style reference.

Publisher: Scottish Government Design System. Last checked: .