smooth scrolling to anchor not working

[person5]

Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to make a custom link in a menu make a smooth scroll to an anchor on the same page, it's driving me nuts at this point tbh :D It always just jumps to the anchor with what seems to be a reload of the page but not with a smooth scroll.
My setup is: I have custom links in a menu (www.mysite.com/#tag) and I have given some elements on the page an ID, I also declared their class as "anchor".
I tried using the code from these threads (and many more), but nothing worked:

http://laythemeforum.com/topic/2863/link-to-anchor-from-another-page
http://laythemeforum.com/topic/7463/scroll-behavior-smooth
http://laythemeforum.com/topic/4200/definitive-guide-to-smooth-scroll-to-anchors-from-menu

As I have basically no coding knowledge, I can't really figure out what I am doing wrong currently, so help would be greatly appreciated

[person5]

So I just made a simple test page (https://lukasrabl.com/test/) and the scroll animation is working perfectly fine there, using this Jquery code:

<script>
    
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
	jQuery('body').on('click', '.js-scrollTo', function(event) {
		event.preventDefault();
		var id = jQuery(this).attr('href');
		jQuery('html, body').animate( { scrollTop: jQuery(id).offset().top }, 750 );
	});
})


</script>

The links I used were in elements on the page itself, like in a text box. But when I use links in the menu to scroll to different parts, it doesn't work. So maybe the error is somewhere there?

[person5]

I fixed it, it was just because my links had a slash before the #hashtag.

So I wrote www.mysite.com#tag instead of www.mysite.com/#tag and it worked immediately.

[arminunruh]

hey dont use custom jquery code for smooth scroll animation

the smooth scroll is already active by default

just follow this tutorial and you're good to go:
https://laytheme.com/documentation/jump-to-anchor.html