Important information:

Using the Design System implies following some rules: the code should be valid and same as the Design System. Meaning custom HTML & CSS override are forbidden.
Please don't forget to read Usage part of each element.

Links

Links are clickable elements allowing users to navigate to another location, such as a different page, site, resource, or section within the same page.

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Types

Default links are mostly used within paragraphs or chunks of text.

States

Basic state
State visible before click. Label is underlined and its colour differs from default text.
Hover state
State visible when the cursor hovers the link. Underline label is displayed in another colour. Cursor becomes a pointer.
Focussed state
State visible when users tab on the link. All elements are displayed with a frame around the label.
Disabled state
State visible if the link is not clickable. All elements are displayed but they are greyed out in order to signify the change of state.

Anatomy

Default link label

Label

Links should be three words or less.
Avoid using generic terms like "click here". Use meaningful labels that match the destination
When having a several words long, try to maintain a good balance between having a link long enough to be understood and short enough to avoid text wrapping.

Explicit label

The label alone has explicit to be sufficient to understand the link purpose and target. Make sure link contains an explicit label and a link to make people understand what's the content of the link and where they go if they click on it.

Open in new window

Target_blank

To be accessible, we have to give users advanced warning when opening a new window. To provide a warning before automatically opening a new window or tab, we display a target blank icon.

Link with target="_blank" image/icon

When an image opens a link in target="_blank", a tooltip is added to the link.

Download a file (pdf, doc, xls...)

For each downloading file, specify the name, type and size

When the content includes links for downloading files, the following information should be included in the link text:

Document title/name
Document type/format
- FR/EN/DE: PDF, DOC, XLS,...
- NL: pdf, doc, xls,...
Size of document
Document language
The language is optional and is only indicated if the language of the uploaded file is different from the page language.
- FR: en anglais, en néerlandais, en allemand
- NL: in het Engels, in het Frans, in het Duits
- EN: in French, in Dutch, in German
- DE: auf Englisch, auf Französisch, auf Niederländisch

Information are separated by commas and always indicated in this order: format, weight, language (optional).

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Sizes and colors

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Accessibility

Make sure <a></a> contains an explicit text and an href to make people understand what's the content of the link and where they go if they click on it.

Don't add any title to the link unless you don't have any other choice. In most of the cases,the content of the <a> is enough.

Default link

Default simple link

Default negative link

rs-link-neg must be added to the <a> to display the text in negative.
Or rs-neg class could be added around.

Negative simple link

Disabled link

Accessibility

For Screen Reader add:

aria-disabled="true" tabindex="-1" to <a>
disabled to <button>

Disabled link

Disabled negative link

Disabled link

Link with target="_blank"

Accessibility

An icon is added to the link to inform that a new window will be opened.
title="New window" attribute is added to icon to display browser tooltip indicating link opens a new window.
New window is added inside the icon for screen readers to read this text indicating link opens a new window.
The copy has to be translate by language:
EN: New window
FR: Nouvelle fenêtre
NL: Nieuw venster
DE: Neues Fenster

Target Blank link

Negative link with target="_blank"

Target Blank link

Disabled link with target="_blank"

Accessibility

Follow same rules as for disabled links.

Target Blank link

Link with target="_blank" image/icon

Accessibility

A tooltip is added to the link with data-tooltip attribute on the <a> .
title attribute is added to the <a> with information about the image + (New window).
EN: New window
FR: Nouvelle fenêtre
NL: Nieuw venster
DE: Neues Fenster
aria-label attribute is added to the <a> with the name of the link.
aria-hidden="true" attribute is added to the <img> .

Link to download a file (pdf, doc, xls...)

Accessibility

The <a> should contain the title, format, weight and language (only if different from the page's) of the document.
Format, weight and (optionnal) language are added in parentheses after the file name within .

The <target_blank> is mandatory in the case of a file download but does’nt need to be indicated by a "new window" text or an icon (in this case only!)

Link to pdf(PDF, 100Mo, in french)

Useful classes

rs-link-no-decoration removes the underline of the link.

rs-link-decoration add underline to the link.

rs-link-hover-decoration add underline to the link on hover and focus.

rs-link gives the link style without being a <a> .

rs-no-pointer-events prevents all click, state and cursor actions on the element (pointer-events: none;)

rs-clickable adds the "hand" representing a link on mouse hover on any element (cursor: pointer;).

jsrs-clickable adds cursor: pointer + javascript making all the element clickable pointing to the first link found within the element.