Pagination
<gcds-pagination>

Also called: page index, page navigation.

Pagination is a division of content into multiple linked pages.

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Build a pagination component

Use pagination to break up content and spread it over numerous pages. This can help make large content sections easier to read and gives a person a sense of their position within the documents.

Coding and accessibility for pagination

Set up simple pagination

Use simple pagination for a smaller number of pages.

• Set the display attribute to simple.
• Set the previous page’s URL with the previous-href attribute.
• Set the previous page’s label with the previous-label attribute.
• Set the next page’s URL with the next-href attribute.
• Set the next page’s label with the next-label attribute.

Set up list styled pagination

Use list styled pagination when you are dealing with a larger number of pages.

• Set the display attribute to list.
• Set the total number of pages in your sequence with the total-pages attribute using a numeric value.
• Set the current or active page with the current-page attribute using a numeric value.
• Opt to use the url attribute to provide the component with a group of page links. This can be an object if you are working in a JS environment, or a string if you are using HTML.

Apply the URL object for list-style pagination

Use the url object to generate the query strings and fragments for the list pagination’s links.

url = {
  queryStrings: {
    // Key value pairs
    key: value,
  },
  fragment: string, // Target id
};

To modify the value based on the page link being rendered, add the object modifiers ::offset or ::match to a key in the queryStrings object.

::offset counts up with the given value starting from the second page link.

url = {
  queryStrings: {
    'index::offset': 100,
  },
};

Using ::match on the current page link being rendered, multiplies it by the value provided.

url = {
  queryStrings: {
    'page::match': 1,
  },
};

Using either ::offset or ::match, allows a number to be injected into a string. Using {{#}}, the modifier will inject the modified number based on the counting method into the string when rendering.

url = {
  queryStrings: {
    'index::offset': 'index_{{100}}',
    'page::match': 'page_{{1}}',
  },
};

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