Child & Youth Services – County of Ventura

Administration – County of Ventura

Parks Department

District Maps – Board of Supervisors

General Services Agency

Civil Service Commission

Page not found – County of Ventura

Yellow Pages – County of Ventura

County of Ventura

Grand Jury

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.

linking-to-anchor-on-page-that-does-not-exist

May 2025

April 2025

Ventura County, California

Title / URL	Issues
Child & Youth Services – County of Venturawww.ventura.org/child-and-youth-services/	2
Administration – County of Venturawww.ventura.org/government/administration/	2
Parks Departmentwww.ventura.org/parks-department/	2
District Maps – Board of Supervisorswww.ventura.org/board-of-supervisors/districtmaps/	2
General Services Agencywww.ventura.org/general-services-agency/	2
Civil Service Commissionwww.ventura.org/civil-service-commission/	2
Page not found – County of Venturawww.ventura.org/invented-url-for-404-page	2
Yellow Pages – County of Venturawww.ventura.org/yellow-pages/	2
County of Venturawww.ventura.org/	2
Grand Jurywww.ventura.org/grand-jury/	2

Avoid linking to anchors that do not exist

Ventura County, California

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