Page Not Found

Off-Campus Study and Exchanges | Skidmore College

Summer at Skidmore College

Pre-College Summer Program | Skidmore College

First time visit: View without clicking anything

News and Events | Skidmore College

Students | News and resources | Skidmore College

Creative Thought Matters at Skidmore College

Office of Student Academic Affairs (OSAA)

Dean of the Faculty and Vice President of Academic Administration

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
Page Not Foundwww.skidmore.edu/invented-url-for-404-page	20
Off-Campus Study and Exchanges \| Skidmore Collegewww.skidmore.edu/ocse/	18
Summer at Skidmore Collegewww.skidmore.edu/summer/	17
Pre-College Summer Program \| Skidmore Collegewww.skidmore.edu/precollege/	17
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.skidmore.edu/	17
News and Events \| Skidmore Collegewww.skidmore.edu/news/	17
Students \| News and resources \| Skidmore Collegewww.skidmore.edu/students/	17
Creative Thought Matters at Skidmore Collegewww.skidmore.edu/ctm/	17
Office of Student Academic Affairs (OSAA)www.skidmore.edu/osaa/	17
Dean of the Faculty and Vice President of Academic Administrationwww.skidmore.edu/dof-vpaa/	17

Avoid linking to anchors that do not exist

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