NICE - File not found

Standards and Indicators | NICE

Published guidance, NICE advice and quality standards | Guidance | NICE

NICE | The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Health protection | Topic | NICE

Life sciences: how to get your product to market | What we do | About | NICE

About | NICE

Settings | Topic | NICE

Accessibility | 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.

linking-to-anchor-on-page-that-does-not-exist

February 2025

January 2025

National Institute for Clincial Excellence

Title / URL	Issues
NICE - File not foundwww.nice.org.uk/invented-url-for-404-page	3
Standards and Indicators \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/standards-and-indicators/index	1
Published guidance, NICE advice and quality standards \| Guidance \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/guidance/published?ngt=Diagnostics%20guidance&ndt=Guidance	1
NICE \| The National Institute for Health and Care Excellencewww.nice.org.uk/	1
Health protection \| Topic \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/guidance/health-protection	1
Life sciences: how to get your product to market \| What we do \| About \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/about/what-we-do/life-sciences	1
About \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/about	1
Settings \| Topic \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/guidance/settings	1
Published guidance, NICE advice and quality standards \| Guidance \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/guidance/published?ngt=Technology%20appraisal%20guidance&ndt=Guidance	1
Accessibility \| NICEwww.nice.org.uk/accessibility	1

Avoid linking to anchors that do not exist

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