Frontend templates

Answer

Answers are designed to provide all the information the user needs to answer a simple and specific question.

How it works

There is only 1 body field for a quick answer. This contains all the content for a page.

Live examples

• Personal tax account: sign in or set up
• Benefits calculators
• File your Self Assessment tax return online

Complete list of examples available and page data on Content Data.

How it’s built

These are the underlying technologies that make-up the answer front template.

Content schema

answer

What is a content schema?

A GOV.UK content schema is a JSON schema that defines the data structure of a piece of content. It determines what content and metadata attributes the page has.

Content type

answer

What is a content type?

Content type describes the types of pages that exist on GOV.UK. It’s stored in the content item (JSON) as document_type. It powers search filters in all finders and changes the content type label users see on GOV.UK pages.

Publishing app

mainstream-publisher

What is a publishing app?

Publishing apps are used by publishers across government departments to publish content to GOV.UK.

Rendering app

government-frontend

What is a rendering app?

Rendering apps render content to GOV.UK end-users.

Components

The components used within the answer frontend template

Component	Source	Publishing app input field(s)
Layout super navigation header	Autogenerated in frontend template
Breadcrumbs	Autogenerated in frontend template	Tagging > Breadcrumbs
Page title	Customized by publisher	Title (required)
Govspeak content	Customized by publisher	Body
Related navigation when displayed within contextual footer	Customized by publisher	Mainstream browse
Related navigation when displayed within contextual sidebar	Customized by publisher	Related content items
Feedback	Autogenerated in frontend template
Answer page: categorising data	Autogenerated in frontend template

History and insights

Date	Description	Document	Format
September 17, 2024	List of all the answer pages and its associated data	Answer page: categorising data (opens in a new tab)	Google Sheets
August 28, 2024	Pages visited after an Answer page - figures are no. of sessions	Answer pages: pages visited after (opens in a new tab)	Google Sheets
June 10, 2024	Time on page against word count for DWP answer pages	Answer pages: average engagement time/word count (opens in a new tab)	Google Sheets
June 6, 2024	Data on exiting from DWP answer pages	Answer pages: exits (opens in a new tab)	Google Sheets

How to report an issue

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Help improve this frontend template

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