St Mary's University: website A-Z

Edinburgh Campus: Gillis Centre

SIMMSport - children's sport activities

Staff system directory

Media and press enquiries

Search all courses at St Mary's University | Degrees in London

St Mary’s Academic Coaches Student Ice Hockey Team at International Event

Postgraduate study at St Mary's

Student Services

PGCE open evenings at St Mary's

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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St Mary's University College, Twickenham

Title / URL	Issues
St Mary's University: website A-Zwww.stmarys.ac.uk/about/a-z.aspx	5
Edinburgh Campus: Gillis Centrewww.stmarys.ac.uk/edinburgh/about.aspx	3
SIMMSport - children's sport activitieswww.stmarys.ac.uk/sport/simmsport/simmsport.aspx	1
Staff system directorywww.stmarys.ac.uk/staff/systems.aspx	1
Media and press enquirieswww.stmarys.ac.uk/experts/view-all.aspx	1
Search all courses at St Mary's University \| Degrees in Londonwww.stmarys.ac.uk/courses/courses.aspx?level=undergraduate,foundationYear,placementYear,foundation	1
St Mary’s Academic Coaches Student Ice Hockey Team at International Eventwww.stmarys.ac.uk/news/2023/02/fisu-winter-games	1
Postgraduate study at St Mary'swww.stmarys.ac.uk/study/postgraduate.aspx	1
Student Serviceswww.stmarys.ac.uk/student-services/about.aspx	1
PGCE open evenings at St Mary'swww.stmarys.ac.uk/open-events/pgce.aspx	1

Avoid linking to anchors that do not exist

St Mary's University College, Twickenham

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