Canopy CSS Utilities — Reference

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Reference for Canopy CSS utility classes. Trigger when using lg-visually-hidden, lg-unstyled-link, or other Canopy utility CSS classes in an Angular project.

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What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by legal-and-general/canopy in skills/best-practice/utils/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

This skill provides reference for the Canopy CSS utility classes available globally in applications that import the Canopy styles.


Available Classes

ClassDescription
lg-visually-hiddenHides content visually but keeps it accessible to screen readers.
lg-unstyled-linkReverts link styles to a more default (unstyled) state.

Usage

lg-visually-hidden

Use to provide context for screen reader users without showing text visually:

<span class="lg-visually-hidden">opens in a new tab</span>

lg-unstyled-link

Apply as a class to revert Canopy link styles on a custom element:

<a href="#" class="lg-unstyled-link">Custom styled link</a>

Or use the SCSS mixin in your component styles (see the mixins skill).

Signals

GitHub stars
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Forks
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Last commit
Sep 2026
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Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
canopy-utils
Source
github.com/legal-and-general/canopy