@include govuk-exports("govuk/component/back-link") {

  // Size of chevron (excluding border)
  $chevron-size: 7px;

  // Size of chevron border
  $chevron-border-width: 1px;

  // Colour of chevron
  $chevron-border-colour: $govuk-secondary-text-colour;

  .govuk-back-link {
    @include govuk-typography-responsive($size: 16);
    @include govuk-link-common;
    @include govuk-link-style-text;

    display: inline-block;
    position: relative;

    margin-top: govuk-spacing(3);
    margin-bottom: govuk-spacing(3);

    // Allow space for the arrow
    padding-left: 14px;
  }

  // Only underline if the component is linkable
  .govuk-back-link[href] {
    text-decoration: underline;

    // When the back link is focused, hide the bottom link border as the
    // focus styles has a bottom border.
    &:focus {
      text-decoration: none;

      &:before {
        border-color: $govuk-text-colour;
      }
    }
  }

  // Prepend left pointing chevron
  .govuk-back-link:before {
    content: "";
    display: block;

    // Vertically align with the parent element
    position: absolute;

    @if $govuk-use-legacy-font {
      // Begin adjustments for font baseline offset
      // These should be removed when legacy font support is dropped
      top: -1px;
      bottom: 1px;
    } @else {
      top: 0;
      bottom: 0;
    }

    left: 3px;

    width: $chevron-size;
    height: $chevron-size;

    margin: auto 0;

    -webkit-transform: rotate(225deg);

        -ms-transform: rotate(225deg);

            transform: rotate(225deg);

    border: solid;
    border-width: $chevron-border-width $chevron-border-width 0 0;
    border-color: $chevron-border-colour;

    // Fall back to a less than sign for IE8
    @include govuk-if-ie8 {
      content: "\003c"; // Less than sign (<)
      width: auto;
      height: auto;
      border: 0;
      color: $chevron-border-colour;

      // IE8 doesn't seem to like rendering pseudo-elements using @font-faces,
      // so fall back to using another sans-serif font to render the chevron.
      font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
    }
  }

  .govuk-back-link:after {
    content: "";
    position: absolute;
    top: -14px;
    right: 0;
    bottom: -14px;
    left: 0;
  }

  @if $govuk-use-legacy-font {
    // Begin adjustments for font baseline offset
    // These should be removed when legacy font support is dropped
    .govuk-back-link:before {
      $offset: 1px;

      top: $offset * -1;
      bottom: $offset;
    }
  }
}