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The U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) provides design guidelines and code to help you quickly create trustworthy, accessible, and consistent digital government services. USWDS components are built on a solid HTML foundation, progressively enhanced to provide core experiences across browsers. In other words, by using the USWDS, what you build today, can be leveraged across the USDA and your agency in the future.

The U.S. Web Design System is a valuable resource for updating your site. It includes:

• User Interface (UI) components including code

• Utilities (simple HTML classes typically scoped to a single CSS property)

• Installation and customization guidance

• Browser Support

• Performance and code guidelines

• Migration and implementations for popular content management systems, web frameworks, and package managers

As much as possible, you should use USWDS Elements (particularly UI components) instead of developing custom ones. USDA digital look-and-feel guidelines incorporate the USWDS Design Principles, and we encourage designand development teams to review these before you start. You should …