Event Calendar | University of Windsor

University Players

First time visit: View without clicking anything

404 - Page not found | University of Windsor

Office of the President

Faculty of Education

Faculty of Graduate Studies

Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Faculty of Science

Faculty of Nursing

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
Event Calendar \| University of Windsorwww.uwindsor.ca/event-calendar	4
University Playerswww.uwindsor.ca/universityplayers/	3
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.uwindsor.ca/	3
404 - Page not found \| University of Windsorwww.uwindsor.ca/invented-url-for-404-page	3
Office of the Presidentwww.uwindsor.ca/president/	3
Faculty of Educationwww.uwindsor.ca/education/	3
Faculty of Graduate Studieswww.uwindsor.ca/graduate-studies/	3
Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Scienceswww.uwindsor.ca/fahss/	3
Faculty of Sciencewww.uwindsor.ca/science/	3
Faculty of Nursingwww.uwindsor.ca/nursing/	3

Avoid linking to anchors that do not exist

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