Worldwide Locations | UMGC

Cybersecurity | UMGC

Admission Requirements | UMGC

Page Not Found | UMGC

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Online Learning | UMGC

Admission | UMGC

Online Master’s Degrees | UMGC

IT & Computer Science | UMGC

Online Degrees | UMGC

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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University of Maryland Global Campus

	Title / URL	Issues
	Worldwide Locations \| UMGCwww.umgc.edu/locations	3
	Cybersecurity \| UMGCwww.umgc.edu/cybersecurity	3
	Admission Requirements \| UMGCwww.umgc.edu/admission/requirements	3
	Page Not Found \| UMGCwww.umgc.edu/invented-url-for-404-page	3
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.umgc.edu/	3
	Online Learning \| UMGCwww.umgc.edu/experience/learning/online	3
	Admission \| UMGCwww.umgc.edu/admission	3
	Online Master’s Degrees \| UMGCwww.umgc.edu/online-degrees/masters	3
	IT & Computer Science \| UMGCwww.umgc.edu/it-computer-science	3
	Online Degrees \| UMGCwww.umgc.edu/online-degrees	3

Avoid linking to anchors that do not exist

University of Maryland Global Campus

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