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Primer Design System
Primer Design System
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Alternative text for images
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Descriptive buttons
Focus management
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Semantic HTML
Text resize and respacing
Tooltips
Component lifecycle
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Contribute
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Design
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Handling new patterns
Adding new components
Figma
Introduction
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How to contribute
Introduction
Rails
Getting started
Migration guides
React
Getting started
Theming
Theme reference
Linting
System props
Core concepts
Philosophy
Overriding styles
Hooks
Foundations
Color
Accessibility
Base scales
Overview
Primitives
Color
Getting started
Migrating
Size
Token names
Typography
Responsive
CSS utilities
Animations
Borders
Box shadow
Colors
Details
Flexbox
Getting started
Grid
Layout
Margin
Padding
Typography
Layout
Typography
Icons and visuals
Octicons
Octovisuals
Design guidelines
Content
UI patterns
Data visualization
Degraded experiences
Empty states
Feature onboarding
Forms
Loading
Navigation
Notification messaging
Progressive disclosure
Saving
Components
Action bar
Action list
Action menu
Anchored overlay
Autocomplete
Avatar
Avatar pair
Avatar stack
Banner
Blankslate
Border box
Box
Branch name
Breadcrumbs
Button
Button group
Checkbox
Checkbox group
Circle badge
Circle octicon
Clipboard copy
Close button
Comment box
Counter label
Data table
Details
Dialog
Form control
Header
Heading
Hidden text expander
Icon
Icon button
Image
Image crop
Inline message
Label
Label group
Layout
Link
Markdown
Nav list
Octicon symbols
Overlay
Pagehead
Page header
Page layout
Pagination
Popover
Pointer box
Progress bar
Radio
Radio group
Relative time
Segmented control
Select
Select panel
Skeleton avatar
Skeleton text
Skeleton box
Spinner
Split page layout
Stack
State label
Subnav
Tab container
Tab nav
Tab panels
Text
Text input
Text input with tokens
Textarea
Timeline
Toggle switch
Token
Tooltip
Tree view
Truncate
Underline nav
Underline panels
Deprecated components
Box overlay
Dropdown
Filter list
Filtered search
Flash
Menu
Select menu
Side nav
Toast
GitHub staff
GitHub shared components
Native
CLI
Components
Foundations
Getting started
Desktop
Foundations
Getting started
Mobile
Foundations
Platforms
GitHub
Side nav
Use side nav for a vertical list of navigational links, typically used on the left side of a page.
Overview
React
Usage of this component is not encouraged
Please use
nav list
instead.