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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
72/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start with the linked content page and review how its Markdown and GOV.UK component examples are presented. Check how the code blocks render and identify the Markdown engine and config.rb customisation references mentioned in the issue. Done means the page explains the examples in a coherent sequence and presents the GOV.UK component correctly.

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Description

documentation

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This page is generally clunky. The examples of markdown/html make sense, but are kind of random with no explanation (why do we jump straight in to table?). The gov.uk components are also not rendering correctly in the code-block.

This ight be best refactored to have some example markdown syntax such as:

# This is a H1 tag

this is some content

## This is a sub heading H2

This section contains a table:
|column| .....

and then a link to the specific markdown engine we use, a govuk component and an example of further customisation via config.rb

Dominant language
Ruby
Stars
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Forks
48
Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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