Freedom of information | BookTrust

News and features: What's happening in children's books | BookTrust

About BookTrust, the UK’s largest children’s reading charity | BookTrust

Features | BookTrust

Work at BookTrust | BookTrust

What we do at BookTrust | BookTrust

BookTrust: Getting children reading | BookTrust

BookTrust news | BookTrust

Become a Friend | BookTrust

BookTrust Cymru | BookTrust

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
Freedom of information \| BookTrustwww.booktrust.org.uk/freedom-of-information/	1
News and features: What's happening in children's books \| BookTrustwww.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-features/	1
About BookTrust, the UK’s largest children’s reading charity \| BookTrustwww.booktrust.org.uk/about-us/	1
Features \| BookTrustwww.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-features/features/	1
Work at BookTrust \| BookTrustwww.booktrust.org.uk/about-us/work-at-booktrust/	1
What we do at BookTrust \| BookTrustwww.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/	1
BookTrust: Getting children reading \| BookTrustwww.booktrust.org.uk/	1
BookTrust news \| BookTrustwww.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-features/news/	1
Become a Friend \| BookTrustwww.booktrust.org.uk/support-us/become-a-friend/	1
BookTrust Cymru \| BookTrustwww.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/booktrust-cymru/	1

Avoid linking to anchors that do not exist

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