Find guidance | NICE

NHS at 75 | NICE

Terms and conditions | NICE

consultations

Homepage | NICE

Privacy notice | NICE

Use of NICE content in the UK form | Reusing our content | NICE

Board | Who we are | About | NICE

Glossary | NICE

Cardiovascular disease prevention: lipid lowering therapy for people newly diagnosed with hypertension or T2DM | Indicators | 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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National Institute for Clincial Excellence

Title / URL	Issues
Find guidance \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/guidance	3
NHS at 75 \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/news/blogs/nhs-at-75	3
Terms and conditions \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/terms-and-conditions	3
consultationswww.nice.org.uk/consultations/	3
Homepage \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/	3
Privacy notice \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/privacy-notice	2
Use of NICE content in the UK form \| Reusing our content \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/forms/use-of-nice-content-in-the-uk	2
Board \| Who we are \| About \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/about/who-we-are/board	1
Glossary \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/Glossary?letter=E	1
Cardiovascular disease prevention: lipid lowering therapy for people newly diagnosed with hypertension or T2DM \| Indicators \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/indicators/ind287-cardiovascular-disease-prevention-lipid-lowering-therapy-for-people-newly-diagnosed-with-hypertension-or-t2-dm	1

Avoid linking to anchors that do not exist

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