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Add guidance for conditional reveal error messages
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89 changes: 89 additions & 0 deletions src/components/radios/conditional-reveal-error/index.njk
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---
title: Radios with conditionally revealing content showing an error
layout: layout-example.njk
---

{% from "govuk/components/radios/macro.njk" import govukRadios %}
{% from "govuk/components/input/macro.njk" import govukInput %}

{% set emailHtml %}
{{ govukInput({
id: "contact-by-email",
name: "contact-by-email",
type: "email",
autocomplete: "email",
spellcheck: false,
classes: "govuk-!-width-one-half",
label: {
text: "Email address"
},
errorMessage: {
text: "Email address cannot be blank"
}
}) }}
{% endset -%}

{% set phoneHtml %}
{{ govukInput({
id: "contact-by-phone",
name: "contact-by-phone",
type: "tel",
autocomplete: "tel",
classes: "govuk-!-width-one-third",
label: {
text: "Phone number"
}
}) }}
{% endset -%}

{% set textHtml %}
{{ govukInput({
id: "contact-by-text",
name: "contact-by-text",
type: "tel",
autocomplete: "tel",
classes: "govuk-!-width-one-third",
label: {
text: "Mobile phone number"
}
}) }}
{% endset -%}

{{ govukRadios({
idPrefix: "contact",
name: "contact",
fieldset: {
legend: {
text: "How would you prefer to be contacted?",
isPageHeading: true,
classes: "govuk-fieldset__legend--l"
}
},
hint: {
text: "Select one option."
},
items: [
{
value: "email",
text: "Email",
checked: true,
conditional: {
html: emailHtml
}
},
{
value: "phone",
text: "Phone",
conditional: {
html: phoneHtml
}
},
{
value: "text",
text: "Text message",
conditional: {
html: textHtml
}
}
]
}) }}
11 changes: 10 additions & 1 deletion src/components/radios/index.md.njk
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### Error messages

Display an error message if none of the radios are selected.
Display an error message if the user has not:

- selected any radios
- answered a conditionally revealed question

Error messages should be styled like this:

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Say ‘Select [whatever it is]’. For example, ‘Select the day of the week you pay your rent’.

#### If it's a conditionally revealed question

Include an [error message](/components/error-message/) that is clearly related to the initial question.

{{ example({group: "components", item: "radios", example: "conditional-reveal-error", html: true, nunjucks: true, open: false, size: "s"}) }}

## Research on this component

If you’ve done any user research involving conditionally revealed questions, particularly with users of assistive technologies, [tell us what you’ve learned by adding a comment to the discussion about this component](https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system-backlog/issues/59).
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