Resident Guide | City of Atascadero

Project Directory | City of Atascadero

Contact the City | City of Atascadero

Business & Economy | City of Atascadero

Our Community | City of Atascadero

Planning Division | City of Atascadero

Page Not Found | City of Atascadero

Boards & Commissions | City of Atascadero

Calendar | City of Atascadero

Bids, RFPs & RFQs | City of Atascadero

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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July 2025

June 2025

City of Atascadero

Title / URL	Issues
Resident Guide \| City of Atascaderowww.atascadero.org/resident-guide	7
Project Directory \| City of Atascaderowww.atascadero.org/project-directory	1
Contact the City \| City of Atascaderowww.atascadero.org/contact-city	1
Business & Economy \| City of Atascaderowww.atascadero.org/business-economy	1
Our Community \| City of Atascaderowww.atascadero.org/our-community	1
Planning Division \| City of Atascaderowww.atascadero.org/planning-division	1
Page Not Found \| City of Atascaderowww.atascadero.org/invented-url-for-404-page	1
Boards & Commissions \| City of Atascaderowww.atascadero.org/boards-commissions	1
Calendar \| City of Atascaderowww.atascadero.org/meetings	1
Bids, RFPs & RFQs \| City of Atascaderowww.atascadero.org/bids-rfps-rfqs	1

Avoid linking to anchors that do not exist

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