Radios change history
| Date | Changed | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | GOV.UK Frontend v6.3.0 | Fixed label text in small, inline Radio buttons wrapping unnecessarily. |
| Jan 2026 | GOV.UK Frontend v5.14.0 | Fixed small radio buttons that were both hovered and focused not rendering the focus style. |
| Sept 2025 | GOV.UK Frontend v5.12.0 | Follow-up to remove forced indentation in conditionally revealed content, as HTML was still indented when radios were used with a fieldset. |
| Jul 2024 | GOV.UK Frontend v5.4.1 | Fixed conditionally revealed content not being aligned with the parent Radio button. |
| Apr 2024 | GOV.UK Frontend v5.3.1 | Removed forced indentation in conditionally revealed content, due to rendering issues with whitespace-sensitive content such as |
| Dec 2023 | GOV.UK Frontend v5.0.0 | Added hover styles to small radio buttons in forced colours mode. |
| Jun 2022 | GOV.UK Frontend v4.2.0 | Added |
| May 2022 | GOV.UK Frontend v4.1.0 | Fixed the hint text of disabled radios appearing darker than the label. |
| Jan 2022 | Guidance | Added guidance about showing error messages within conditionally revealed content. |
| Dec 2021 | GOV.UK Frontend v4.0.0 | Changed conditional reveal JavaScript to look for conditionally revealed content in the whole page, rather than just in the current radios element, to fix JavaScript |
| Sept 2021 | GOV.UK Frontend v3.13.1 | Updated focus style to re-add the transparent outline for forced colour mode users. |
| Aug 2021 | Guidance | Updated guidance about when to use inline (horizontal) radio buttons. |
| Jun 2021 | Guidance | Updated known issue guidance to include findings from screen reader user testing of conditionally revealed content. |
| Sept 2020 | Guidance | Added known issue that that assistive software users are not consistently notified about conditionally revealed content. |
| Jan 2020 | GOV.UK Frontend v3.5.0 | Added the option to add custom classes for each item’s hint. |
| Oct 2019 | GOV.UK Frontend v3.3.0 | Fixed conditionally revealed content areas still being shown when there’s no content in them. |
| Jul 2019 | GOV.UK Frontend v3.0.0 | Added support for conditional reveal functionality to work across multiple radio button groups with the same Updated how the Updated focus style to use a thicker border and remove the transparent outline. Reduced the size of the dot in small radio buttons. |
| Apr 2019 | GOV.UK Frontend v2.10.0 | Added smaller variant of Radios. |
| Jan 2019 | GOV.UK Frontend v2.6.0 | Fixed conditional reveal functionality being able to reveal content in other radio button groups on the same page. |
| Jan 2019 | Guidance | Added guidance on positioning inputs relative to their labels. |
| Nov 2018 | Guidance | Added guidance to advise against using conditionally revealed content with inline (horizontal) radio buttons. |
| Nov 2018 | GOV.UK Frontend v2.3.0 | Added the option to add custom classes to each item’s wrapping element. |
| Oct 2018 | Guidance | Added guidance to include hint text that tells the user that they can only select one option. Added guidance to include a ‘none’ option, if that’s a valid answer. Added guidance to advise against pre-selecting radio buttons. Added guidance on how to sort options within a radio button list. |
| Oct 2018 | GOV.UK Frontend v2.2.0 | Fixed dividers not having its own text colour set. |
| Aug 2018 | GOV.UK Frontend v1.3.0 | Added the option to add custom HTML attributes for each item’s input. |
| Jul 2018 | GOV.UK Frontend v1.2.0 | Added the option to add divider text between items. Added the option to add a hint for each item’s input. Added the option to add custom classes for each item’s label. Fixed conditionally revealed content being visible when the page is still loading. |
| Jul 2018 | GOV.UK Frontend v1.1.0 | Added a transparent outline when an input is focused, to help with visibility in forced colour modes. Fixed labels extending the full width of the page. Removed extra spacing from the bottom of labels. |
| Jun 2018 | GOV.UK Frontend v1.0.0 | Component introduced. |