Find guidance | NICE

Quality standards | NICE

Terms and conditions | NICE

Standards and indicators | NICE

NHS at 75 | NICE

NICE - File not found

consultations

Homepage | NICE

Indicators | NICE

Privacy notice | NICE

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
	Find guidance \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/guidance	3
	Quality standards \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/standards-and-indicators/quality-standards	3
	Terms and conditions \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/terms-and-conditions	3
	Standards and indicators \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/standards-and-indicators	3
	NHS at 75 \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/news/blogs/nhs-at-75	3
	NICE - File not foundwww.nice.org.uk/invented-url-for-404-page	3
	consultationswww.nice.org.uk/consultations/	3
	Homepage \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/	3
	Indicators \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/standards-and-indicators/indicators	3
	Privacy notice \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/privacy-notice	2

Avoid linking to anchors that do not exist

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