Summary list Change history

Date Changed Description
Mar 2026 GOV.UK Frontend v6.1.0

Fixed alignment issue when inline block elements are longer than a single line.
May 2025 Guidance

Removed guidance to not change the spacing of action links.
Mar 2025 GOV.UK Frontend v5.9.0

Fixed card action link appearance when there are many links.
Jan 2024 Guidance

Added guidance to not change spacing of action links in order to comply with WCAG 2.2.

Added guidance to pre-populate previously entered information in order to comply with WCAG 2.2.
Dec 2023 GOV.UK Frontend v5.0.0

Changed action link HTML to add the title of the summary card or list as visually hidden text after the link text.
Aug 2023 Guidance

Added guidance on showing summary lists with missing information.
Apr 2023 Guidance

Added guidance to use bold text on card actions to differentiate from row actions to help screen magnification users.
Jan 2023 GOV.UK Frontend v4.5.0

Added Summary card variant to provide visual separation between multiple summary lists on a single page.
Aug 2022 GOV.UK Frontend v4.3.0

Fixed action link alignment when there are multiple action links in a single row.

Removed right-hand padding from last column in a row.
Feb 2022 GOV.UK Frontend v4.0.1

Added explicit width to the row with ‘no actions’ pseudo-element.
Dec 2021 GOV.UK Frontend v4.0.0

Changed component HTML to avoid nesting <span> elements within <dd> elements, which goes against the HTML spec.

Added govuk-summary-list__row--no-actions class to manage display of back-to-back rows which do and do not have actions.
Aug 2020 Guidance

Added content on the govuk-summary-list__row-no-border class which removes borders on a single row.
May 2019 GOV.UK Frontend v2.12.0

Added attributes parameter for action links.
Apr 2019 GOV.UK Frontend v2.11.0

Added support for custom classes on summary list rows.

Fixed 1px row height change when borders are removed, adjusting padding by 1px instead.

Fixed text alignment when the actions column is not added so the key column always stays at 30% width.
Mar 2019 GOV.UK Frontend v2.9.0

Added classes parameter to action items.
Mar 2019 GOV.UK Frontend v2.8.0

Fixed word wrapping to work more consistently across all browsers.
Feb 2019 GOV.UK Frontend v2.7.0

Fixed wrapping of long, unbroken lines of text.
Jan 2019 GOV.UK Frontend v2.5.1

Fixed actions to only be output as a list if there’s more than one action.
Jan 2019 Guidance

Updated explanation for how visually hidden text is added to action links.
Jan 2019 GOV.UK Frontend v2.5.0

Component introduced.