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Enable new link styles by default #3599

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In July 2021, we made some improvements to new link styles which were released as part of v3.12.0.

We introduced these changes behind a feature flag $govuk-new-link-styles: true which service teams needed to set before importing GOV.UK Frontend in order to opt-in.

This was in case users:

Now that #2204 has been fixed in Chromium, we can make the new link styles ‘opt-out’.

Closes #2350

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In July 2021, we made some improvements to new link styles [1] which were released as part of v3.12.0.

We introduced these changes behind a feature flag `$govuk-new-link-styles: true` which service teams needed to set before importing GOV.UK Frontend in order to opt-in.

This was in case users:

- needed to make changes to their service to introduce these new link styles consistently
- wanted to avoid opting in if they have links within a multiple-column layout in your CSS, due to Known issue: hover state is mis-painted on links within CSS multiple-column layouts #2204

Now that #2204 has been fixed in Chromium, we can make the new link styles ‘opt-out’.

[1]: #2350
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Looks good for me, just thinking it's also an opportunity to mark deprecation and forget about the setting until the next breaking change if that's what we want 😊

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#### New link styles are now enabled by default

In GOV.UK Frontend v3.12.0 we introduced new link styles which:

- have underlines that are consistently thinner and a bit further away from the link text
- have a clearer hover state, where the underline gets thicker to make the link stand out to users

The new link styles are now enabled by default. If you are setting `$govuk-new-link-styles` to `true` in your Sass you can now remove this.

This change was made in [pull request #3599: Enable new link styles by default](https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend/pull/3599).

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question Did we say this setting would be removed in the next breaking change? If that's the case, do we want to add a little note that the setting is deprecated?

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Would appreciate your thoughts on this in #3600! If we don't want to do #3600 then yes, we should probably deprecate it instead.

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Actually, I'll merge this and if we do decide to deprecate it we can do that in a follow up PR too.

@36degrees 36degrees merged commit 1e7b7e2 into main May 10, 2023
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