Edinburgh Campus: Gillis Centre

SMU Graduate Nikita Kanda to take to the Strictly Dancefloor

SIMMSport - children's sport activities

Explore our degrees by subject: study at St Mary's University

St Mary's University: website A-Z

Media and press enquiries

Postgraduate study at St Mary's University

Student Services

PGCE open events at St Mary's

Study at St Mary's University, London

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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December 2025

November 2025

St Mary's University College, Twickenham

Title / URL	Issues
Edinburgh Campus: Gillis Centrewww.stmarys.ac.uk/edinburgh/about.aspx	3
SMU Graduate Nikita Kanda to take to the Strictly Dancefloorwww.stmarys.ac.uk/news/2023/08/nikita-strictly	1
SIMMSport - children's sport activitieswww.stmarys.ac.uk/sport/simmsport/simmsport.aspx	1
Explore our degrees by subject: study at St Mary's Universitywww.stmarys.ac.uk/study/subjects.aspx	1
St Mary's University: website A-Zwww.stmarys.ac.uk/about/a-z.aspx	1
Media and press enquirieswww.stmarys.ac.uk/experts/view-all.aspx	1
Postgraduate study at St Mary's Universitywww.stmarys.ac.uk/study/postgraduate.aspx	1
Student Serviceswww.stmarys.ac.uk/student-services/about.aspx	1
PGCE open events at St Mary'swww.stmarys.ac.uk/open-events/pgce.aspx	1
Study at St Mary's University, Londonwww.stmarys.ac.uk/study/degrees.aspx	1

Avoid linking to anchors that do not exist

St Mary's University College, Twickenham

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