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Skip link

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Overview

A skip link provides keyboard and screen reader users a way to bypass repetitive navigation and jump directly to main content. Use it when a page has many navigation items preceding the main content area. It should be the first focusable element on the page, and authors must provide either an href attribute or a slotted <a> element.

import '@rhds/elements/rh-skip-link/rh-skip-link.js';
 
<rh-skip-link href="#main-content">Skip to main content</rh-skip-link>
 
import { SkipLink } from "@rhds/elements/react/rh-skip-link/rh-skip-link.js";

// NOTE: React 19+ does not require these wrapper imports.
// You can use the custom elements directly as-is.

export const Demo = () => (
  <SkipLink href="#main-content">Skip to main content</SkipLink>
);

URL fragment (e.g. #main-content) identifying the target element to skip to. When set, the component renders its own anchor in shadow DOM and the default slot accepts plain text for the link label.

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Status

To show the skip link, click this top page header and press Shift+Tab on your keyboard.

When to use

  • When there are many navigation items preceding main content
  • When there are blocks of content that are repeated on multiple pages

Status checklist

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