Our culture

Benefits and rewards

Students and recent graduates

Inquiries

Propel your career

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Disclosures of Wrongdoing

Office of the Auditor General of Canada

Sustainable development and the OAG

Reports to Parliament

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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Auditor General of Canada

Title / URL	Issues
Our culturewww.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/au_fs_e_43560.html	6
Benefits and rewardswww.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/au_fs_e_42302.html	6
Students and recent graduateswww.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/au_fs_e_42304.html	6
Inquirieswww.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/admin_e_43119.html	6
Propel your careerwww.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/au_fs_e_42303.html	6
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/admin_e_41.html	6
Disclosures of Wrongdoingwww.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/admin_e_43990.html	6
Office of the Auditor General of Canadawww.oag-bvg.gc.ca/Internet/English/admin_e_41.html	6
Sustainable development and the OAGwww.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/sds_fs_e_920.html	5
Reports to Parliamentwww.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/parl_lp_e_856.html	5

Avoid linking to anchors that do not exist

Auditor General of Canada

Where this issue has occurred