Contact Us | Principal

Get help | Principal

Find a financial professional in your area | Principal

About us | Principal

Careers & Employment | Principal

Privacy Policies | Principal

Find a dentist | Principal

Site Map | Principal

Page Not Found | Principal

Retirement, Investments, and Insurance | Principal

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
Contact Us \| Principalwww.principal.com/contact-us	5
Get help \| Principalwww.principal.com/help	5
Find a financial professional in your area \| Principalwww.principal.com/find-financial-professional-your-area-individuals	5
About us \| Principalwww.principal.com/about-us	5
Careers & Employment \| Principalwww.principal.com/about-us/careers	5
Privacy Policies \| Principalwww.principal.com/full-privacy-policy	5
Find a dentist \| Principalwww.principal.com/find-dentist	5
Site Map \| Principalwww.principal.com/site-map	5
Page Not Found \| Principalwww.principal.com/invented-url-for-404-page	5
Retirement, Investments, and Insurance \| Principalwww.principal.com/	1

Avoid linking to anchors that do not exist

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