Governance – CCRI

Banner – CCRI

Online Learning and Technology for Students – CCRI

Contact CCRI – CCRI

Academic Calendar – CCRI

One Stop Student Services – CCRI

404 - Page cannot be found – CCRI

Academic and Career Paths – CCRI

Student Engagement – CCRI

Hispanic-Serving Institution – CCRI

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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April 2025

March 2025

Community College of Rhode Island

Title / URL	Issues
Governance – CCRIccri.edu/governance/	1
Banner – CCRIccri.edu/it/banner/	1
Online Learning and Technology for Students – CCRIccri.edu/online/	1
Contact CCRI – CCRIccri.edu/about/contact.html	1
Academic Calendar – CCRIccri.edu/calendar/academic/	1
One Stop Student Services – CCRIccri.edu/onestop/	1
404 - Page cannot be found – CCRIccri.edu/invented-url-for-404-page	1
Academic and Career Paths – CCRIccri.edu/pathways/	1
Student Engagement – CCRIccri.edu/osl/	1
Hispanic-Serving Institution – CCRIccri.edu/hsi/index.html	1

Avoid linking to anchors that do not exist

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