consultations

Careers | NICE

Homepage | NICE

Find guidance | NICE

Diversity and inclusion | NICE

NICE - File not found

Digital at NICE | NICE

Terms and conditions | NICE

We care about our staff | NICE

Use of NICE content in the UK form | Reusing our content | NICE

Do not link to an anchor on the page that does not exist. For example:
linking to `#content` without a valid destination such as `<body id="content"></body>`.

A common web design pattern is to use a named anchor to show an element via JavaScript, e.g.

```html
<a href="#foo" onclick="$('.bar').toggle();">Click me</a>
<div class="bar">
    This is some content.
</div>
``` 

In these cases, the anchor (`#foo`) should point to the `id` of the hidden element:

```html
<a href="#foo" onclick="$('#foo').toggle();">Click me</a>
<div id="foo">
    This is some content.
</div>
```

This way the semantic intent of the link is preserved, even without JavaScript. 
Note that doing so may require modification to your script, to prevent automatic 
scrolling to the named anchor.

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	Title / URL	Issues
	consultationswww.nice.org.uk/consultations/	3
	Careers \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/careers	3
	Homepage \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/	3
	Find guidance \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/guidance	3
	Diversity and inclusion \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/careers/diversity-and-inclusion	3
	NICE - File not foundwww.nice.org.uk/invented-url-for-404-page	3
	Digital at NICE \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/careers/digital-at-nice	3
	Terms and conditions \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/terms-and-conditions	3
	We care about our staff \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/careers/we-care-about-our-staff	3
	Use of NICE content in the UK form \| Reusing our content \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/forms/use-of-nice-content-in-the-uk	2

Avoid linking to anchors that do not exist

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