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CMS Design System

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    • Accessibility
    • Design Principles
    • Browser Support
    • Print guidelines
      • Layout Grid
      • Breakpoints
    • Base
      • Headings
      • Body
      • Links
      • List
    • Color
    • Spacing
    • Components overview
    • Accordion
    • Alert
    • Autocomplete
    • Badge
    • Button
    • Card (M.gov)
    • Checkbox
      • Calendar Picker
      • Multi Input Date Field
      • Single Input Date Field
    • Drawer & Help Drawer
    • Dropdown
    • Filter Chip
      • Healthcare.gov Footer
      • Medicare.gov Footer
    • Form Label & Legend
      • Healthcare.gov Header
      • Medicare.gov Header
    • Icon
    • Idle Timeout
    • Inset (HC.gov)
      • Healthcare.gov Logo
      • HHS Logo
      • Medicare.gov Logo
    • Masked Field
    • Modal Dialog
    • Month Picker
    • Pagination
    • Radio Button
    • Review
    • Skip Nav
    • Spinner
    • Stars (M.gov)
    • Step List
    • Table
    • Tabs
    • Text Field
    • Tooltip
    • USA Banner
    • Vertical Navigation
    • Patterns overview
      • Forms
      • Form validation
    • Phone numbers
    • Third Party External Link
    • Utilities overview
      • One Column Page Layout
    • Documentation Page
    • Utilities overview
    • Background Color
      • Border Radius
      • Border
    • Display
    • Flexbox
    • Float
      • Font Family
      • Font Size
      • Font Style
      • Font Weight
    • Margin
    • Overflow
    • Padding
      • Line Height
      • Measure
      • Text Alignment
      • Text Color
      • Text Decoration
      • Text Transform
      • Truncate
      • Word Break
    • Vertical Align
    • Visibility
    • Migrating to v4 buttons
    • Migrating to v2
    • Using agnostic typography classes

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Third Party External Link

  • Guidance
    • Related patterns
  • Google Analytics

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The third party external link pattern is used to notify a user that the action they are taking will take them to a new external website.

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Guidance

Use this pattern when the user is in the middle of a task or application to let them know that the action they are taking will move them away from the current site and or process. This serves as a warning where the user can then decide to remain where they are in the application or process.

Any non .gov and .mil links will be treated as external whether they belong to a government agency or not, no exceptions

  • CMS policy on external links
  • CMS external link disclaimer

Refer to Modal dialog for custom props.

Related patterns

  • Modal dialog

Google Analytics

Refer to Modal dialog for details of the Analytics props

On this page

  • Guidance
    • Related patterns
  • Google Analytics

Have ideas?

  • Contact the team
  • Start a discussion on GitHub
  • Edit this page
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