Common Good Fund | Aberdeen City Council

Housing | Aberdeen City Council

Information about flooding | Aberdeen City Council

Strategy, Performance and Statistics | Aberdeen City Council

Natural heritage | Aberdeen City Council

A-Z | Aberdeen City Council

News | Aberdeen City Council

Find your local library | Aberdeen City Council

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.

linking-to-anchor-on-page-that-does-not-exist

December 2025

November 2025

Aberdeen City Council

Title / URL	Issues
Common Good Fund \| Aberdeen City Councilwww.aberdeencity.gov.uk/services/people-and-communities/common-good-fund	3
Housing \| Aberdeen City Councilwww.aberdeencity.gov.uk/services/housing	3
Information about flooding \| Aberdeen City Councilwww.aberdeencity.gov.uk/services/environment/information-about-flooding	3
Strategy, Performance and Statistics \| Aberdeen City Councilwww.aberdeencity.gov.uk/services/strategy-performance-and-statistics	3
Natural heritage \| Aberdeen City Councilwww.aberdeencity.gov.uk/services/environment/natural-heritage	3
A-Z \| Aberdeen City Councilwww.aberdeencity.gov.uk/a-z/g	3
News \| Aberdeen City Councilwww.aberdeencity.gov.uk/news?page=8	3
News \| Aberdeen City Councilwww.aberdeencity.gov.uk/news?page=1	3
News \| Aberdeen City Councilwww.aberdeencity.gov.uk/news?page=5	3
Find your local library \| Aberdeen City Councilwww.aberdeencity.gov.uk/services/libraries-and-archives/find-your-local-library	3

Avoid linking to anchors that do not exist

Aberdeen City Council

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